ARTIST STATEMENT

Award-winning artist, Judy Crissey pushes the limits in acrylic painting with her process-driven inspiration and practice. Crissey’s abstract work is rooted in feminist abstract expressionism, or what you could call "arguments without words."

Crissey taught young people for fourteen years at Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art which reinforced to her the idea that art is about process over product. Additionally, Crissey was influenced by her studies at the Kansas City Art Institute with Tucson-based painter, Josh Goldberg, and Philomene Bennett of Kansas City. Spending many years out west, the warm desert hues emerge throughout her body of work.

“I let the painting navigate my journey and together we often reach a destination that I had not intended. On this journey, my passion is the action of putting paint on a canvas. The repetition of patterns, line, shape, and color art becomes intuitive as I release control. The unity of opposites, dark versus light create balance within the painting with the combination of medium, makes for one exciting trip. Through this mysterious release, I allow the painting to be what it wants to be.”

Art by Judy Crissey, it’s not just mixed media, it’s a dramatic range of emotionally driven journeys; conversations about traveling through dark and stormy places and into joy and light.

“The honors awarded to Crissey in various juried shows and exhibitions, for daring to push the limits, pay tribute to her process driven inspiration and practice. Her art is a trip with twists, turns and surprises as she communicates with the canvas with out caring for the final destination along the way. Her active and expressive mixed media creations communicate a range of emotionally driven experiences.”