Judy Jensen Explained

Judy Jensen
Birth Date:1953
Birth Place:Lamesa, Texas
Known For:Artist
Style:Reverse glass painting

Judy Jensen (born 1953) is an American artist who resides in Austin, Texas. She is best known for her reverse painting on glass, although she incorporates other mixed media into her glass pieces.[1] According to Nancy Bless, Jensen's works "lie somewhere between a collage and a collection."[2]

Biography

Jensen was born in Lamesa, Texas.[3] When Jensen first became interested in glass, she began to create stained glass panels. She eventually recognized that painting would be less restrictive.[4] She credits her undergraduate study in cultural and physical anthropology at the University of Texas (1971–1974) for many of the themes and recurring symbols in her work. Her early work features skeletons and fire, while snakes become important in later work. Jensen has said of her work, "My paintings are mystical – not very many things are."

Jensen is involved in a project replacing glass paintings, destroyed in an earthquake, in a 19th-century Buddhist temple in northwestern Thailand. These will depict the Vessantara and Siddhartha incarnations of Buddha. She was awarded a grant from the James H.W. Thompson Foundation in Bangkok in support of the project.[5]

Career

From 1980 to 1985, Jensen was involved with the Renaissance Glass Company in Austin, Texas, a studio for flat glass artists founded by Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend and Rodney Smith. There she experimented with a variety of painting techniques, including reverse glass painting.[6]

Jensen has exhibited widely. Solo venues include eight exhibits with New York's Heller Gallery; the Galveston Arts Center; and the Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts. Group exhibitions include Glass Today: American Studio Glass from Cleveland Collections, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1997; Pilchuck Exhibition, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, 1996–1997; Gerald Peters Gallery in New York; the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Atlanta's High Museum; Tell Me a Story: Narrative Art in Clay and Glass, Eighth Triennale India, New Delhi, 1993; International Exposition of Sculpture Objects, and Functional Art: SOFA, Chicago, IL, 1996; Selections from The Chodorkoff Collection, The Detroit Institute of Arts, MI, 1991; and World Glass Now, The Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan, 1994.

A National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship recipient (1986), Jensen's works are in numerous public and private collections, including the Royal Ontario Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Corning Museum of Glass, McDonald's Corporate Art Collection, and the Washington Art Consortium. For eight years, Judy Jensen worked almost exclusively on commissions.

Museum and public collections

Awards and honors

Selected publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Judy Jensen: Feverish: January 18th – February 24th, 2002. Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. 2002. 2, 24, 25. 51951219.
  2. Bless. Nancy. August–September 2002. Judy Jensen. American Craft. 62. 4. 66–67.
  3. 1987. Portfolio. American Craft. 47. 66.
  4. Waggoner. Shawn. September–October 1989. The Glass Canvas: Cold and Reverse Painting. Glass Art. 4. 6. 5, 7.
  5. News: American artist repairs century-old reverse glass paintings. Sattha. Cheewin. 9 November 2015. Bangkok Post.
  6. Cutler. Dick. October–November 1993. Judy Jensen: Tableaux in Reverse. American Craft. 53. 42–45.
  7. Web site: Blue Willow. Smithsonian American Art Museum. 10 March 2019.
  8. Web site: Tiger House Jungle. Corning Museum of Glass. 10 March 2019.

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