Judie Bamber
{{short description|American artist (born 1961)}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Judie Bamber
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1961}}
| birth_place = Detroit, Michigan, US
| alma_mater = California Institute of the Arts
| awards = City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship (2008)
California Community Foundation Fellowship (2008)
Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship (2012)
| known_for = Painting
}}
Judie Bamber (born 1961) is an American artist in Los Angeles. Her often representational paintings explore themes of gender, sexuality, temporality, and memory. She teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program at Otis College of Art and Design and is best known for Are You My Mother?, featured in New American Paintings in 2003 and 2004.{{cite web|last1=Zevitas|first1=Steven|title=40 Galleries You Should Know If You Love Paint|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-zevitas/40-galleries-you-should-k_b_1761400.html|website=HuffPost Arts & Cultures|publisher=TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc.|accessdate=8 March 2015}} Her paintings, watercolors, and graffiti emphasize women's pleasure and permeate her family history.{{Cite web|title=Judie Bamber – Artists – GAVLAK|url=https://www.gavlakgallery.com/artists/judie-bamber|access-date=2020-06-29|website=www.gavlakgallery.com}}
Early life and education
Bamber was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1961. She received her BFA from California Institute of the Arts in 1983.{{cite book|title=C.O.L.A 2008 Catalog|date=2008|publisher=City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs|isbn=978-0-9719949-6-6}}
=Works=
Bamber creates figurative paintings and drawings based on photographic sources ranging from images of female genitalia to seascapes.{{cite web|last=McGrew|first=Rebecca|title=Project Series 26: Judie Bamber|url=http://www.pomona.edu/museum/exhibitions/2005/project-series-26/index.aspx|accessdate=9 March 2014|archive-date=10 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310033712/http://www.pomona.edu/museum/exhibitions/2005/project-series-26/index.aspx|url-status=dead}} Her early work included still lifes in which objects, painted to scale, floated in front of monochromatic color fields.{{cite web|last=Blake|first=Nayland|title=Further Horizons|url=http://www.pomona.edu/museum/exhibitions/2005/project-series-26/index.aspx|accessdate=10 March 2014|archive-date=10 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310033712/http://www.pomona.edu/museum/exhibitions/2005/project-series-26/index.aspx|url-status=dead}} In the mid-1990s, in a collection of works without a name, she painted photorealistic "portraits" of vaginas. In 2002, Bamber began a series of seascapes, making initial plain-air watercolor sketches that she used for oil paintings. From 2005 to 2014, she worked on the project Are You My Mother?, consisting of small-scale representational watercolors and graphite drawings based on posed erotic and fashion like Polaroids, her father took of her mother in the 1960s.{{cite web|last=Halberstam|first=Jack|title=Judie Bamber: Are You My Mother? at Angles Gallery, Los Angeles|url=http://x-traonline.org/article/judie-bamber-are-you-my-mother/|publisher=X-TRA Online|accessdate=11 March 2014}}
Awards
- 2008 City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Individual Artist Fellowship
- 2008 California Community Foundation Fellowship{{cite web|title=DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS ANNOUNCES C.O.L.A. 2008 INDIVIDUAL ARTIST FELLOWSHIPS|url=http://www.culturela.org/press/releases/2008_Press_Releases/2008.04.16.COLA.pdf|accessdate=9 March 2014|archive-date=23 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923211931/http://www.culturela.org/press/releases/2008_Press_Releases/2008.04.16.COLA.pdf|url-status=dead}}
Exhibitions
Selected solo shows
- Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY (2004)
- Pomona College Museum of Art, Project Series 26 (2005)
- Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2008)
- Are You My Mother?, Angles Gallery (2011){{Cite news|url=http://x-traonline.org/article/judie-bamber-are-you-my-mother/|title=Judie Bamber: Are You My Mother?|work=X-TRA|access-date=2018-03-15|language=en-US}}
Selected group exhibitions
- Women by Women, Heiner Contemporary, Washington, D.C. (2011){{cite web|title=Women by Women|url=http://heinercontemporary.com/exhibitions/2011-women-by-women|work=Past Exhibitions|publisher=Heiner Contemporary|accessdate=March 26, 2014}}
- Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's Dinner Part in Feminist Art History, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (1996){{cite book|editor-last=Jones|editor-first=Amelia|title=Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's Dinner Part in Feminist Art History|date=1996|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley|isbn=0-520-20565--0}}
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Category:California Institute of the Arts alumni
Category:Otis College of Art and Design faculty
Category:21st-century American women painters
Category:21st-century American painters