Judy Shifrin

"My art is the work of creating connections," says Judy Shifrin. "Through wood constructions and paper collages, I attempt to capture energy and transform it into artistic representations that bridge opposites and states of being. Varying in color and degree of playfulness, this artwork plays upon positive and negative energy by forcing it into various hieroglyphic shapes, human gestures, and shapes in nature, all of which are used with passion to reflect tension and rhythm."

"My process is broadly motivated by the various forces that generate connections and their realignment--harmony, balance, synergy, tension, unity and friction. Organized into separate series on synergy and the sublime as a way of putting to use many different images to reflect one broad idea, my art is distinctly original transformations of space into imaginative three-dimensional structures of beauty and resonance. The colors are at once bold and soft, always provocative and memorable; the shapes are unpredictable and innovative, used singly and in mass."

Born in Columbus, OH, Shifrin has been drawing and painting since childhood. After graduation from the Cleveland Institute of Art, the square canvas became her primary focus. Today she creates colorful groupings in both mixed media paper collages and three-dimensional wood constructions.

Shifrin has had one-woman shows in Cleveland, OH; Palm Beach, FL; and Nantucket, MA. Her work appears in corporate and private collections throughout the United States. For more information, call 330-562-7118; e-mailjshif69062@aol.com.