Judy Giera (Not So Fine Art)

I am a multidisciplinary artist moving between sculpture and painting. I use a range of materials from acrylic and spray paint, canvas, wood, composite and epoxy resins, fiberglass, textiles, glitter, plastic, clay and paper, plus found and personal items. Embracing a bright and bold color palette, I employ a playful materiality and implicit eroticism to meditate on the myriad ways that feminine bodies must react, morph and constantly recalibrate in order to survive. My practice offers humor and a joyful abjection to embody the horror/resiliency it takes to move through the world as a woman, queer, and trans person.

The body is always present in the work. In paintings it is rendered fluorescent and recomposed. Bodies fragment, contort and embody the erotic to meet the demands of the patriarchy with a malicious compliance. Sculptures, either wall-based or fully in space, use a theatrical material sensibility to transcribe the visceral and elusive feelings of being seen and surviving as a queer woman. The body is fragmented and the materials trace the form and feelings of transgender embodiment through sculpture. Often my work is presented in designed and considered installations with painted walls, addressed lighting, and other scenic elements. Ideally, as a whole, my work transcends my own personal narrative to reveal liberatory possibilities that transness and feminism make possible for all bodies.