News and Shows
“Ephemera Collector” wins Grand Prize in Artist’s Magazine All Media Competition
She was featured in the September 2018 issue with a two page spread.
This painting has a lovely history of awards, in 2017 she was awarded Second Place at the Mandel J Show in Beachwood, Ohio, and, in June, she was awarded Best In Show at the 73rd Ohio Annual at the Zanesville Museum of Art!
Thru September 16: Full Sun: American Women Artists Illumniate the Haggin Museum
As part of American Women Artists' mission to have 25 museum shows in 25 years they put out a call for entry asking artists to become inspired by a painting from their collection. My painting was inspired by 16th Century Dutch artist Verboekhoven's "Highland Monarch"
I gave it a feminist twist and created my “Highland Matriarch.” Read about how this painting was inspired here.
Opening Reception:
Thursday August 2, 5:30 to 8:00
Through September 16
Stockton, California
A Historic Announcement
Judy Takács Elected as Member of Historic Salmagundi Club in New York City
This is so special because I basically grew up in art hearing about the Salmagundi Club in New York from my Portrait Teacher at the Cleveland Institute of Art, José Cintron. He spoke of it with a reverence for the artistic giants of portraiture who have also been members since it began in 1871. William Merrit Chase, Norman Rockwell, Childe Hassam, N.C. Wyeth, Howard Pyle…even Louis Comfort Tiffany. The Salmagundi Club positioned itself at that lovely crossroads between narrative, representational art and illustration, at a time when that was going out of favor, they carried the torch.
Showing Now
August 30:Figura(tive), at Ashland University
Curated by Cynthia Petry at the Coburn Gallery of the Ashland University, Judy Takács will be showing selections from her Chicks with Balls Series along with Ohio figurative artists, Joe Radoccia, Beth Nash, and Benjy Davies.
Opening Reception:
Thursday August 30th, 4:30 to 6:30
Through September 28
Ashland University
Ashland, Ohio
September 16: Allied Artists of America 105th Annual Juried Exhibition at the Salmagundi Art Club in NYC
My painting, The Final Chapter will be included in this prestigious juried exhibition at the historic Salmagundi Art Club in New York. Check out the awesome roster of artists who will also be part of this exhibit.
I blog about this last portrait I painted of my mom before she passed away.
Show dates: August 30-September 16.
Reception and Awards Ceremony :
Sunday, September 16, 1:00 to 5:00.
Salmagundi Art Club
47 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY
Online Exhibitions
Poets/Artists: The New Nude
An online exhibition from Poets/Artists magazine, featuring many stars of contemporary figurative realism. Check out the entire show here. All works are available through artsy.com, here's the link to my painting, "Reversal of Venus"
Woman as Warrior
Woman as Warrior, curate by Didi Menendez and Sergio Gomez made its debut as an exhibition at the Zhou B Gallery in Chicago in 2017. This amazing collection of paintings and sculptures created to the theme of empowerment of women is also a Poets/Artists publication, available here. The entire show can be viewed on artsy and my painting, Lady in Waiting is available through Zhou B Gallery here.