Flashcard Memorials: Works by Judy Glantzman
Curated by Doug Milford
July 3- August 15, 2021
In small fresco-like portraits painted on plaster plaques, Glantzman memorializes African-American victims of police shootings and COVID victims, illuminating the spirit of each of her subjects, extending for each of them their own immortality, projected through the facet of her vision.
With much larger paperwork, Glantzman reproduces educational pictures of historical African-American heroes, as emblems, creating a framework for her education and the pieces themselves, “like bricks around the edge”. The works also include a garland of cloud-like watercolor abstractions — “like vines in the brick” — made by tracing shadows. Together, Glantzman says, the emblems, the tracing, and the illusion, “reveal meaning for me”. These layered frameworks surround a large empty space at the center. “When you stand in front of the work, you are the center.”
The exhibition also includes the artist’s collaborations with the poet, Lew
