Judith Brotman Love Letters to My Strange Familiars Curated by Matt Morris September 10 – October 6, 2024
Judith Brotman is a multidisciplinary artist and educator from Chicago. Her work includes mixed media installations, theatrical immersive environments, and language/text-based projects. Brotman’s work frequently occupies a space between abstraction and figuration, deterioration and regeneration, elegance and awkwardness, generosity and obligation. In a world of uncertain outcomes, Brotman emphasizes the possibility of healing and transformation. Additionally, she explores the potential of social media as a site of real interaction or conversation. In all her works, Brotman considers spaces of not knowing to be both complex and generative despite, or perhaps due to, the resulting cliffhanger of uncertainty.
Exhibitions venues include: Smart Museum of Art, SOFA Chicago, Columbia College/Chicago, Indiana University Northwest, Franconia Sculpture Park, Hampshire College, The Society of Arts & Crafts/Boston, Boundary, Mobilia Gallery, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Asphodel Gallery, INOVA, the DeVos Art Museum, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Threewalls, Circa Modern, Slow Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center, Tiger Strikes Asteroid/Chicago, Chicago Artists Coalition, Hyde Park Art Center, Gallery 400, and The Illinois State Museum. Brotman’s work is in the collection of The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Illinois State Museum, and the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection as well as in many private collections. Brotman received her BFA and MFA from the Department of Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she has taught for over twenty years. |https://judithbrotman.com/home.html|www.judithbrotman.com