Judith G. Levy

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: Lawrence, KS

Year at Millay: 2015

Awards/Honors: Artist-in-Residence, Studios Inc, Kansas City, MO (2020–2023); Artist-in-Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (2017); Artist-in-Residence, Thematic Residency, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM (2015); Artist-in-Residence, Art OMI, Ghent, NY (2014); Artist-in-Residence, E2C Residency, Escape to Create, Seaside, FL (2011).

Website: https://judithglevy.com/home.html

My videos, photographs, performances, two-dimensional work, and installations explore complexity, commonality and contradiction in personal stories, historical narratives, social issues, and environmental concerns. I use my queer gaze to address issues of identity and to describe departures from traditional understandings that suggest new meanings. As I often work in in multiples and series to establish different understandings and shifts in perspective. My use of repetition is one way I try to destabilize commonly held beliefs and explore how traditional assumptions are shaped and revised. Revelations poke through the cracks of reexamination and re-telling, and concepts of identity are often center stage.