Judy Takács, Contemporary Figurative Realist

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Best known for her long term portrait series, Chicks with Balls: Judy Takács paints unsung female heroes, Judy began her art career in 1986 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration and Portrait Painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art. A winner of a dozen Best-In-Show Awards in the past seven years, she has curated, juried and exhibited in solo, group and juried shows at museums, art centers and colleges nationally.

Her work has been recognized by the Portrait Society of America and has shown at the Butler Institute of American Art, ArtNEO Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Zanesville Museum of Art, Evansville Museum, Haggin Museum, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Salmagundi, and National Arts Clubs. She has been featured and in Poets/Artists Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur, the Portrait Society Members Journal and reviewed in Cleveland Scene Magazine and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. 

A Grand Prize Winner in the All-Media Competition, her painting, Ephemera Collector appears in the September 2018 issue of Artists Magazine. A holder of signature status at the Akron Society of Artists and an Associate with Distinction with American Women Artists, Judy is an elected board member of Allied Artists of America and serves as Social Media Chair. She is past chair of the New Media Relations Committee of the Cecilia Beaux Forum of the Portrait Society of America. 

In 2013 and then again in 2019, the Ohio Arts Council granted her an award for Individual Artistic Excellence for her ongoing traveling painting project, Chicks with Balls: Judy Takács paints unsung female heroes. Chicks made its debut at BAYarts in 2013 and has traveled through Ohio and Pennsylvania since.

Her accomplishments are noted on Wikipedia, and in the summer of 2019, Judy had her critically acclaimed two-artist inaugural show, SECRETS, with the late Marilyn Szalay, Cleveland’s iconic figure drawing artist. Takács’ work is archived with the legendary artists of Cleveland at the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve.

On February 13, 2020, one of Judy's major art goals came true with the opening of her first Museum Solo Show at the Zanesville Museum of Art, which hosted Chicks with Balls: Judy Takács paints unsung female heroes. The show opening was also the  book launch for the second Chicks book, Chicks with Balls: Judy Takács keeps painting unsung female heroes. 

Because of the COVID 19 crisis, Judy's second gallery talk for the ZMA show, Beyond Chicks with Balls: The Goddess Project, was presented on facebook live from her home as a virtual docent tour of the paintings from her Goddess series.

This successful and fun foray into performance, launched the idea and served as the pilot for her weekly facebook live event, LIVING FIGURATIVELY. Billed as the show that asks the question, Why NOT fill your home with the fascinating faces and figures of people you don't even know…why NOT fill your home with figurative art?…LIVING FIGURATIVELY is part interior decorating show, and part art appreciation. Because Judy refers to it as her TV Show, there are many nods and references to the 1960s/70s TV shows of Judy's Childhood.

Takács’ goal as a painter of people is to create a living breathing soul on canvas, who invites viewers to linger, connect and think.

Below are all the ways you can find her and follow her!

Judy Takács

email: judytakacs@me.com

facebook: JudyTakács

facebook: Judy Takacs, artist

facebook: Chicks with Balls: Judy Takács paints unsung female heroes

instagram: @judytakacs, #judytakacs

web (old): judytakacspaintspeople.com

web: judytakacs.com

blog: chickswithballsjudytakacs.blogspot.com

YouTube: Judy Takács

Wikipedia: Judy Takács