Judy Tuwaletstiwa

Gallery Talk: Monday, August 15, Linda Durham Gallery
Workshop: August 15 - 19

Judy Tuwaletstiwa is a painter with great artistic, moral, spiritual and practical acumen. Born in California, her life has taken her to many places exotic and common. With a particular focus on the experience of the landscape: place, history, narrative and myth, she has spent great time and energy exploring how the landscape holds the unconscious and how she can help others understand and connect with that powerful common relationship. Her paintings have a sublime simplicity and resonant power. Using earth elements of sand, mud, feathers, clay and twigs in conjunctive harmony with acrylic and canvas, they explore the elemental landscapes of spirit and place, opening to the viewer the possibilities of being. She has assembled a body of work that includes a limited edition book, The Canyon Poem; and is presently creating a series of large-scale paintings along with the first volume of her next book Making Breath Visible.

Workshop: De Harmonia Mundi: A Sense of Place
In this workshop, participants will explore the internal landscape, a landscape formed in part by memories and dreams. Out of this exploration, participants will develop individual visual language to express the unique relationship to the unconscious. Judy will introduce both traditional and non-traditional materials and form individualized and group exercises to guide participants into a sustainable studio practice that will last long after the workshop finishes.

We live cycles. The light and the dark cycles move through the limnal dawn and dusk. These cycles calibrate us: sleep and dream, wake and work, internal and external; the times between that hold what was and call to what will come, dark into light, light into dark, the elusive and ever present harmony of the world.

Call for workshop application at 424 5050, or download online
Scholarships available.