Artists Judith Geher 1 page

`Playground Studies`

`There are kids out in the yard, playing and swinging and rolling and fighting. They communicate with each other through this interaction and in their body language; through touch and distance and backs turned away. Someone`s mad, someone`s laughing, and that one is just forlorn.`

"I have been exploring the immediacy of play - in particular the games children create, the abandonment of inhibitions, and the freedom to express emotion. I am interested in capturing the essence of the relationships between the figures, both spatial and psychological, which are manifested during these games. Removed from any context, children tumble into the canvas as they wrestle to the floor and swing into view from beyond the frame, compelling the imagination to accentuate and extend the experience beyond the canvas.
Alternately embracing the immediacy of the `sketch` and the emotion of the `gesture`, my work attempts to express these often spontaneous and charged moments. I try to place myself into the scene invoking these same feelings as I paint, translating this freedom of emotion into the image." Judith Geher

Education
1998 University of Toronto,
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Bachelor of Architecture

Juried Exhibitions

2007 9th Annual Juried Emerging Sculptors Exhibition Sculptors Society of Canada, Toronto

2007 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto

2007 Riverdale Art Walk, Jimmy Simpson Park, Toronto

2007 Seakeasy`s Annual Fine Art Show, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto

2007 2x2 Show, Propeller Centre Gallery, Toronto

2007 Drawing 2007, John B. Aird Galley, Toronto

2006 Art in the Fall, Nuit Blanche, 401 Richmond, Toronto

2006 26th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Arts Etobicoke, Toronto

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007 Square Foot, Awol Gallery, Toronto

2006 Art: to Ease Crappy Conversation, Loop Gallery, Toronto

2006 Winter Salon, Loose Cannon Gallery, Hamilton

2006 Square Foot, Awol Gallery, Toronto

2006 Hello, Lennox Contemporary Gallery, Toronto

Awards

1998 Toronto Architectural Guild Medal
1998 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Honour Roll
1998 Henry Adams Certificate of Merit
1998 Jules Wegman Fellowship
1998 Ballenford Books Drawing Prize

Publications

2000 Practice Practise Praxis
Serial Repetition, Organizational Behavior and Strategic Action in Architecture Edited by Scott Sorli, Published by YYZBOOKS

1996 On McLuhan - Forward Through the Rear View Mirror
Edited by Paul Benedetti and Nancy DeHart, Published by Prentice-Hall Canada Inc.