JUDITH HENRY | Boxed Sets | AL’S OFFICE

October 1 - November 3, 2023

VIEW EXHIBITION

Society is formed of individuals, each bearing a mark of uniqueness, but bound in a commonality of experience. My work has always been an exploration of the variety and sameness inherent in human life. As an artist, I have taken on the role of listener and observer, my work a documentation of the teeming communion of diverse human beings. Through the use of painting, text, photographic imagery, and sculpture, I study and reveal recurring patterns formed by the motions of living, the gestures as different as snowflakes, but packed together like snow.

For over five decades I have created multimedia artworks and books that explore the friction between interior life and the public self. I often use masks in my work stressing anonymity and in 2020 I self-published a photobook called Beauty Masks. My graphic photobook series “Overheard” (Overheard at the Museum, Overheard While Shopping, Overheard at the Bookstore, Overheard in Love) was published by Universe/Rizzoli. Overheard in America was published by Atria Books. These books consist of overheard conversations in text and photos.

In the late 70s I created several products for The Museum of Modern Art: puzzles, stationeryandabrochureadvertisingtheirtemporarymovetoQueens. My crumpled paper stationery was their best-selling item and it sold internationally for over 25 years. I worked as a book designer at Alfred A. Knopf, Harry Abrams, Inc and as an art director for several Time Life Book series.

My work has been exhibited at BravinLee Programs and the National Arts Club in New York, The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey as well as the Catskill Arts Center in Livingston Manor, NY. I have been included in group exhibitions nationally and internationally in Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, London, and Switzerland. I am the recipient of a 2022 Pollack-Krasner grant.