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           Goddess, Woman, Dust and Rainbow Cleveland Hopkins Airport

           Goddess, Woman, Dust and Rainbow Cleveland Hopkins Airport           Goddess, Woman, Dust and Rainbow Cleveland Hopkins Airport           Goddess, Woman, Dust and Rainbow Cleveland Hopkins Airport
Black Friday Discounts!

One heading to Columbus Metropolitan Library Feb 3-March 25

One Accepted to the 2023 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition

One, a gold leaf beauty from my Madonna and Child series of my Goddess Project, is headed to the 

Carnegie Gallery of Columbus Metropolitan Main Library 

to be part of this stellar exhibition. 

Thank you to jurors: Kelly & Kyle Phelps, Professional Juror
Jay Mantel, Columbus Metropolitan Library
Katie Peet, Friends of the Library


Columbus Metropolitan Main Library

96 South Grant Ave.

Columbus, Ohio 43215

Monday-Thursday: 9 a.m.-9 p.m.Friday-Saturday: 9 a.m.-6 p.m.Sunday: 1-5 p.m.


Show Dates: February 3- March 25

Closing Reception: March 25, 2-4:00pm


Buy One as a Giclee Print

No Way To Go Ohio is FRESH

FRESH at the Summit Artspace opens Friday, January 13 from 5-7:00

Thrilled that No Way To Go Ohio was accepted to 2023 FRESH, juried by Michael Gill. 

FRESH encourages artists to push the boundaries of what art can be…stylistically, conceptually and technically

Opening Reception: Friday January 13th from 5:00-7:00. 

Show continues in the Main Gallery on the first floor through March 18th 

Gallery Hours, Fridays 12-7 and Saturdays 11-5

Summit Artspace

140 East Market Street

Akron, Ohio

330 376 8480

Summit Artspace

July Solo Show: The Goddess Project: Warriors

Solo Show at the Ashtabula Arts Center Opens July 7, 2023 6:00 to 8:00

Bigger and better than ever, The Ashtabula Arts Center will host a Solo Exhibition of my Goddess Project paintings!

Many Diptychs, Triptychs and Singles will be shown together for the first time ever in this vast and beautiful gallery space, 

which is home to the now legendary Annual Paul and Norma Tikkanen Painting Prize Exhibition.


Show opens Friday July 7 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm and continues through July 29.


Gallery hours: M-Thurs 9-9:00, Friday 9-4:00, Saturday 9-1:00, Closed Sunday

If you want to combine your art trip with a theatre production,

the gallery is also open before performances and during intermission.


Ashtabula Arts Center

2928 West 13th Street

Ashtabula, Ohio 44004

(440) 964 3396


Ashtabula Arts Center

TOP AWARD for MASALA

MASALA takes First Place Prize at the Akron Society of Artists Members Show

With the election coming up, the timing couldn't be more perfect. 

MASALA (Make Abortion Safe and Legal Again) won First Place, the top award at the 

Akron Society of Artists Members Juried Exhibition. 


Huge thanks to juror, John P. Smolko, for his beautiful words about my heartfelt painting.


 Judy Takacs piece, MASALA (Make Abortion Safe and Legal Again), is a perfect example of Judy being an artist in her own time. This is a dynamic issue in our society, and it took an enormous amount of bravery for Mrs. Takacs to create it and exhibit it in this exhibition. It is a painting that individuals on both sides of the issue should see and appreciate. When I was teaching high school art, I told my students that they should create art that viewers will either love or hate. The kind of art that is not actually art at all, is art that elicits no response and has no soul. This painting has soul. You will either love it or hate it, but you will not be oblivious to its presence. Judy Takacs has created a painting that explodes on the wall and demands your attention. It is thought provocative, and we all will be voting on it this election. Picasso said, “No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It’s an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.” 


Akrona Galleries

Living Figuratively covers Tikkanen Show

Living Figuratively walks through the first ever Tikkanen Painting Prize

The inaugural showing of the Paul and Norma Tikkanen Painting Prize takes Northeast Ohio Art by storm! 

With its TWO $12K Best in Show prizes, one for Realist Art and one for Abstract, 

the 100 works are by some of the best artists working in Northeast Ohio today. 

I was thrilled to be included, and awarded an Honorable Mention.


I  took Living Figuratively on the road for a special visit to the Ashtabula Arts Center for a walk through of this stellar show. 

Buy a Giclee Print of Trust Women and I'll donate $50 to Pro Choice Causes

Honorable Mention at Paul and Norma Tikkanen Painting Prize

Trust Women makes a statement at the Ashtabula Arts Center

Trust Women, from my growing pro-choice series, is honored to win an Honorable Mention at the 

highly competitive Paul and Norma Tikkanen Painting Prize Exhibition 

at the Ashtabula Arts Center


I featured Trust Women on Living Figuratively, watch it now!


Buy a Giclée Print of Trust Women and I'll donate $50 to Pro Choice Causes

43 Judy Takács Paintings at the Cleveland Airport

Goddess, Woman, Dust and Rainbow on Concourse A

Beyond excited to announce that 43 of my paintings, in giclée print format, 

will be showing this Fall at the

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport

Ramp to Concourse A!

  

The show title, Goddess, Woman, Dust and Rainbow, 

is a hearty and respectful nod to the 

FRONT International and CAN Triennial Art exhibitions taking place all over Northeast Ohio this summer.  

I present truthful, sensitive and realistic portraits of goddesses, muses, nuns, artists, mothers, heroes, 

icons and women; real and imagined. 

And because it's the airport, all are PG…clothed and covered for your family-friendly child-safe viewing pleasure! 

Concepts, however, may make you think, and, as always, my goal is to save the world one painting at a time.

Through January 31st, 2023

Shop for Judy Takács Giclée Prints

Goddess Project Book Available NOW!

The Goddess Project Book

72 pages, 55 full color images and chock full of paintings and stories of 

Goddesses, Mortals and Heroines as seen through my contemporary feminist lens.

$50 plus tax.


Available at the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, The Butler Institute of American Art, and my online shop.


Buy The Goddess Project Book Online

Goddess Project makes ABC News!

https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/new-art-exhibit-raises-awareness-on-female-wrongful-c

Panel Discussion with the Women of The Ohio Innocence Project Makes the 6:00 News

So psyched that Cleveland ABC News5 came out to cover the Goddess Project: Innocents Panel Discussion March 20th!

It was an amazing event. I was honored and humbled to share the stage and meet these strong women who've been through more than we can imagine whether they were wrongfully incarcerated or loved someone who was. It is to their huge credit that they continue to work with the Ohio Innocence Project to help others who were wrongfully incarcerated 

as they transition back into the world they have been robbed of for so long. 


Thank you to Chagrin Arts for hosting the exhibit and the Panel Discussion. 

Show continues through June 12th at Chagrin Arts in Downtown Chagrin Falls, Ohio. 

Ohio Innocence Project

Three Portrait Society of America Honors

Judy Takács has been granted Portrait Society of America Signature Status

Signature Status recognizes those practicing and accomplished artists who are dedicated to the educational mission and high aesthetic standards of the Portrait Society of America. The artist's work must consistently demonstrate a high level of skill and sophistication of aesthetics.


Thrilled that my work and my contributions to the portrait and figurative art world are recognized by the 

Portrait Society of America, and organization that I've been proud member of for over a decade.


Pictured above is, Madonna and Child and Child: A Portrait of Joy

 one of the paintings submitted for my Signature Status Application.

Portrait Society of America

ONE is a finalist in the Portrait Society of America Members Only Show!

Thrilled to announce that my painting, ONE, has been awarded finalist status at the Portrait Society of America Members Only Exhibition in the Non-commissioned Portrait Category! She was also very recently awarded an Honorable Mention at the Valley Art Center 50th Anniversary Show!

See the other finalists

Lauralee wins Select Fifty Award in Portrait Society of America International Competition

After entering this holy grail of a prestigious Portrait competition for 12 years, I have finally achieved a placement among the stellar 100 chosen from over 2200 entries.


This is a huge first for me and I'm thrilled about it!

See the other 49 in the Select 50

My art is heading to the Moon…digitally

Secure the Perimeter (left)

Believe it or not, digital copies (not NFTs) of 

SIX of my paintings, Secure the Perimeter, The Skeptic, Charmed, Serenity Prayer (sold), The Orange Hoodie (sold) 

and Miss Magnolia and the Red Stain (sold) 

will be included in the Lunar Time Capsule 

and joining NASA’s scientific payloads on 

Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One sometime in July 2021. 


Artists on the Moon is an initiative coordinated by 

physicist Dr. Samuel Peralta. 

The Skeptic (right)

Approximately 1200 artworks, books and one Artificial Intelligence-created project are digitally included in this time capsule to be archived on the moon via Astrobotic's Peregrine Lunar Lander, traveling on United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket. 

Charmed (left)

How did my works get invited to make this historic ride? They were all included in various Poets/Artists Magazines over the years, and that was one of the many places 

Dr. Peralta looked when choosing art for the moon…

right place at the right time! 


Three of these historic works are sold, but the other three, pictured here, are still available. 


Check ’em out at my online shop now, under the category, Art to the Moon!

Buy Art on the Moon

Three Historic Announcements

Judy Takács achieves Signature Status with American Women Artists

With its mission of 25 Museum Shows in 25 Years, the American Women Artists organization is unique in its approach to advocating for women artists. I was proud to have achieved Associate with Distinction Status a few years back, and now have moved up to Signature Status with this esteemed organization. 

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. 

Judy Takács Elected as Full Member of the Historic Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club

Catharine Lorillard Wolf was a major collector and patron of the arts at the turn of the last century. The CLWAC was established to honor her legacy. Thrilled to announce that I am the newest elected member of this prestigious and selective 122 year old Organization.

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