Dates: Thursday, April 20 – Friday, May 26, 2006

Opening Reception:  Thursday, April 20, 2006, 6 – 8 pm

Hours of Operation: Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 6 pm

On Thursday, April 20, 2006, Betty Cuningham Gallery will open an exhibition of the recent paintings and sculpture of Judy Glantzman.  Glantzman is a native New Yorker and a 1978 graduate of Rhode Island School of Design.  Shown in New York since 1983, Glantzman is distinguished particularly by her early shows in the East Village with Gracie Mansion and subsequently at BlumHelman and Hirschl & Adler Modern. 

On exhibit will be approximately twelve recent oil paintings dating from 2004 to 2006 accompanied by thirty small figurative sculptures dating from 1990 to the present.  While these paintings, which range from small, intimate pieces, to larger, wall dominating works, represent Glantzman’s most recent creations in oil on canvas, this will be the first time her sculptures are exhibited.  A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Susan Harris accompanies this exhibition

Glantzman’s current paintings, as described by Harris, are “intense, frenetic and visionary portrayals of her/our world.”  Glantzman creates vividly highlighted canvases of faces, hands, and feet captured in an individual moments of emotional expression or action.  The imagery, built up in thick layers of oil paint through a process of addition and subtraction, elicits the emotional response of Bosch and Picabia.  “A cacophony of voices desired to be heard, these paintings can be seen as the inside of my head made visible,” Glantzman explains in her artist’s statement.  She continues later, “The paintings are worked over a long period of time.  The repetition and repainting allows me freedom to form each figure without judgment …I choose to reveal myself but what is revealed can be scary.  I try to be unafraid of my work.”