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Judith can be contacted by e-mail at jrlmcrae@shaw.ca
This show took place on Saturday, December 11th, 2010, in the studio.
Nine people attended the show, and almost all of them found and fell in love with a painting. Some took them home straight away, and others asked me to reserve them until the end of January, so that they could raise the money to return later and pick them up. View the collection.Judith McRae was born in Calgary, in 1961. She was educated at the Alberta College of Art in two periods - a diploma in Painting which she received in 1984, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts, which she received in 2004.
She has maintained a working art studio since 1984. She has been affiliated with a number of arts organizations, including the Calgary Burns Society, and TRUCK: an artist-run centre.
It's always been about elevating the mundane to the level of a kind of specialness that is called Art. One time when I was a kid, I took a bunch of junk I found in the alley, piled it on the table, and made a still life out of it. Then, I made a painting of the still life. I think I got an "A" in my art class for doing that, and it felt very strange, because it was just a pile of junk. But it was a nice kind of strangeness - very affirming.
Art is a form of communication, but it is the sort of communication where the message received is almost never the message that was intended to be sent. Usually, the message received is way more interesting than what was intended to be sent. That's the really great thing about it. I think it would be very boring, if you understood exactly what I was thinking when I made my paintings. I think it's cool that you see and learn things when you look at my art, that never even occurred to me when I was making it.