Artist Bio

Judy Jashinsky

Selected Collections:

National Gallery of Art
The National Museum of Women in the Arts
Art Institute of Chicago
Detroit Institute of Arts
Springfield (MO) Art Museum
Virginia Center for Creative Arts
Cranbrook Museum of Art
Smith-Barney
The World Bank
Great Lakes Bancorp
University of Michigan School of Medicine
Muskegon Museum of Art
University of Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Washington Convention Center
Montgomery College
Pretoria Art Museum
American Embassy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
The Washington Post
The Wilson Building (City Hall, Washington DC)

Solo Exhibitions:

Paints in the Dark, Capitol One Art Program, McLean, VA   2007
Fra Angelico Tribute, Saint Peter’s Chelsea, NY, NY   2006
Artemisia Gentileschi: Excerpts From An Artist’s Life, Ceres Project Space (Elizabeth Foundation) NY, NY  2002 and Northern VA Community College, Loudan, VA   2004
Wood and Water, Signal 66, Washington, DC  2004
Paints In The Dark: A Native American Perspective,  Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA  2003
Artemisia Gentileschi: An Artist’s Life, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean VA  2002
Rome: June 1622, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD 1999
Artemisia Gentileschi–Academy Celebration 1616, Gibson Creative, Washington, DC  1998
Roman Fever: Artemisia Gentileschi, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL, and Artist's Museum, Washington, DC, 1998
Roman Fever: Iris Print Series, Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD, Baltimore Museum of Art Print Fair, Corcoran Gallery of Art Book Fair, 1997; Galleria Julia, Rome, Italy, Federal Reserve, Washington, DC  1998
No Net, Aquasource Gallery, NY, NY  1996
Men & Women, Wood & Water, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD  1994
Voyage of Rediscover, Traveling show: Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC     1992, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA 1992 - 1993, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA  1993
Figurative Paintings, Clare Spitler - Works of Art, Ann Arbor, MI  1989
Dream On: Initiation, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC  1989 
Adam & Eve and X-Men, Life Café, NY, NY   1988
Faces of the Venticento, Gallery 10, Washington, DC  1987
Close Relations  Clare Spitler - Works of Art, Ann Arbor, MI  1986
Coy Nudes,
Life Café, NY, NY   1985
Recent Still Life Paintings, Gallery K, Washington, DC 1985

Group Exhibitions:

Washington Women in the Arts, Osuna Gallery, Bethesda, MD   2008
9 x 10, WPA/ Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC   2007
Take Me To The River, The Wichita Art Museum, Wichita Falls, TX   2006
Pink Lady – Girlz Club presents: Mixology,   Wohlfarth Gallery, Brookline, Washington, DC  2006
Indigenous Art, Bank One Headquarters, McLean, VA   2006
Is That A Boy or a Girl? - Artists Look at Gender, Warehouse Gallery, Washington DC   2005
Where’s The Peace?,  Warehouse Gallery, Washington DC   2005
That’s Not The Way I Remember It..., Salve Regina Gallery, Catholic University Dept. of Art 2005  
Dusk: Low Light & Sources Of Luminescence, Kenneth Milton Fine Arts, Chestertown, MD 2005
Take Me To The River   Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa   2005
Faces of The Fallen-Portraits of Iraq War Casualties,
Arlington National Cemetery, Women’s Memorial, Arlington, VA   2005-2006
Art-O-Matic, “Girlz Club,” Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Washington DC   2004
Anonymous,
WPA/Corcoran, Flashpoint, Washington, DC   2004
Select II, WPA/Corcoran, Washington, DC 2004
Take Me To The River, Opera Gallery, Cairo, Egypt   2002 
Going Beyond...an Odyssey, Corcoran, Washington DC   2002
Contemporary Realism: A Survey of Washington Artists, The Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA 2001
Curve, Signal 66, Washington DC  2000
Roman Fever, Art-O-Matic at Hechinger's, Washington, DC  2000
Rockwellian Times, 57 N Street Gallery, Washington DC  2000
Visible Women, Marlboro Gallery, Prince George’s Community College, Largo, MD   2000
Fast Forward, WPA/Corcoran, Washington, DC  1999
Water, Art-O-Matic, Manhattan Laundry, Washington, DC   1999
Jolt, Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, DC  1999
Past, Present, Future, Clare Spitler Works of Art, Ann Arbor, MI  1998-1999
Metamorphosis, WPA/Corcoran, Washington, DC  1996
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Clare Spitler - Works of Art, Ann Arbor, MI  1996
Lilith, Rockville Arts Place, Rockville, MD   1995 
1995 Juried Exhibition, SOHO 20, NY, NY  1995
1995 National Exhibition, First Street Gallery, NY, NY  1995
The Art of Work/The Work of Art, Traveling Exhibition (various venues) 1995-96
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, NY, NY 1993, and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC  1994
Legend, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA  1993
Artists Select, Artists Space, NY, NY   1993 - 94
Dress Forms: The Power of Clothing, District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, DC 1993
Hero, Fondo del Sol Visual Arts Center, Washington DC  1992
Water, Mahler Gallery, Washington, DC  1992
Another Way, Rockville Arts Place, Rockville, MD  1991-1992
Memento Mori, Fondo del Sol Visual Arts Center, Washington, DC 1990
Painting 88, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA  1988
Brandeis Annual, Strathmore Hall, Washington, DC 1986
Deutsch-Amerikanisches,
Stadische Galerie, Regensburg, West Germany 1988-1989
Painterly Sculpture,
Gallery 10, Washington, DC  1986
Romanticized and Fantasized, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC 1986
Contemporary American Indian Art, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 1984   
Figurative Motifs, Emily Harvey Gallery, NY, NY 1982
The Ritz, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC  1983
36 Hours,  Museum of Temporary Art, Washington, DC 1979

Honors:

+ Wilson Building Public Art Project, three portraits chosen for the Permanent Collection, 2006
+ Visual Artist Support Grant, The Samuel and Adele Golden Foundation (Ceres Project Space) New York, 2002
+ Residency Fellowship, Virginia Center For the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar VA:
Collaboration with Katherine Smith on the “Lost Letters” (Artemisia Gentileschi) 2000
+ Portraits for “Voyage of Rediscovery” 1990
+ Preparation for “Initiation”, 1985 and Exhibition 1989
+ Special Recognition: Mayor’s Art’s Awards:  Art-O-Matic Steering Committee 1999 and 2002
+ American-Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation (sponsorship of “Roman Fever” exhibition) Artist’s Museum, Washington, DC  1998
+ New Forms Regional Grant Program, Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA  1993
+ Mayor's Arts Award nominee for "Excellence in Service to the Arts” 1992
+ Individual Artist's Grants, DCCAH 1981,1986-1987,1987-1988

Publications/Reviews

+ Linda Hales, "Dark Beauty" Washington Post Magazine, Spring 2008

+ Judy Jashinsky, "Feels Like Home," The Washington Post - Home, October 26, 2007

+ Mark Jenkins, “Modern Day Pieces of History”, The Washington Post - Weekend, Feb. 12, 2004
+ Bob Massey, “The Eternal Tablets” The Washington Post Express, Jan. 22,2004
+ Jo Ann Lewis, “Drawn From A 17th Century Life, The Washington Post, Jan. 22, 2002
+ Joanna Shaw-Eagle, Obsession Re-creates Painter’s Life, The Washington Times, Jan. 26, 2002 and “Renaissance Artist Lives Again As 'Possessed Painter’s Muse'”, July 21, 2001
+ Neal Turtell, InPrint, Maryland Printmakers, “Artist’s Books and the National Gallery”, V11, # 1, March 2000  
+ Ferdinand Protzmann, “Jolt At Baumgartner,” The Washington Post, January 27, 1999
+ Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review  (October 1998) -- cover and article on Artemisia Gentileschi project
+ Annie Groer, “Reliable Source,” The Washington Post, May 11, 1998
+ Mark Jenkins, “Trial by Fire: The downtown Arts District Shrinks Again. The Washington City Paper, June 16, 1995   
+ The Art of Work: The Work of Art, catalogue to accompany exhibition, 4 venues in the Washington DC area, 1995
+ Mary McCoy, “The Art of Revelation: Eight Collections for the Women’s Caucus”, The Washington Post, Feb. 23, 1995
+ Curated by Fire: The Work Lost and Damaged in the Fire, June 8 and 21, 1995, catalogue, comments by Terrie Sultan (Washington, DC 1996)
+ Mary McCoy, “Art of Fashion and Fantasy”, The Washington Post, December 25,1993  
+ Mary McCoy, “Judy Jashinsky; Franz Bader Gallery (exhibition review), New Art Examiner, January 1993
+ Cheryl Mountcastle, “Comparisons and Contrasts, Common Threads in Exhibition”, + The Lynchburg News and Advance, June 11, 1993  
+ Spike Hansson, “Quincentenary Installation at Franz Bader” The  First Americans, October 1992
+ Mary McCoy, “Unmistakably Female: In Rockville”, ”Another Way” is explored.” The Washington Post, Dec. 28, 1991  
+ J. W. Mahoney, “Dreaming: Report From Washington”, Art in America, February, 1991
+ John Carlos Cantu, “Heart and Soul,” The Ann Arbor News, January 6, 1991
+ Robert Bersson, Worlds of Art  (Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing, 1991), pp. 526-527
+ JoAnn Lewis, “Watercolors By Judy Jashinsky” The Washington Post, February 2, 1985
+ Michael Welzenbach, “The Mortal of the Story: At Fondo del sol, New Life for a Familiar Subject”, The Washington Post, March 31, 1990
+ Eric Gibson, “On Display”, Washington Times, April 12, 1990
+ Bernard Welt, ”Out of the Dark”, Museum and Arts Washington, March/April 1989
+ Patrick Finnegan, “Washington DC”, Contemporanea, November 1989
+ John Carlos Cantu, “The Self-Possessed Woman Dominates Jashinsky Exhibit”, Ann Arbor News, January 6, 1991
+ Michael Welzenbach, “Mythic Proportions: Three Artist’s at WPA’s Dream On....” The Washington Post, May 17, 1989

Public Involvement:

Artist-in-Residence, St. Peter's in Chelsea, NYC, 2005-
Transformer Gallery, Washington DC, Advisory Council Member, 2005 – 2007
Art-O-Matic, Steering Committee, multimedia art presentation, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004
Library of Congress, guest speaker, “Artemisia Gentileschi: An Artist’s Life, Dec. 6, 2001
Consultant, Indian Community School, Milwaukee WI, 2001- 2004
Selection Committee, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, Public Sculpture Commission: Martin Luther King Memorial Library, 2000 - 2001
Project Coordinator, Eugene and Agnes Meyer Foundation, Washington DC, 1995- 1997
Pyramid Atlantic Biennial Book Fair Steering Committee, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1997-1999
Member of the Board, Washington Project for the Arts, 1989 - 1996:
Exhibition Coordinator:  "Noche Crist - Boudoirs and Lupenars," 1995
Coordinator, Open Studio, 1991 & 1993
Outreach Committee (project: "WPA at the Hemicycle," exhibition of area artists at       Corcoran Gallery of Art, June 1992)
Visual Arts panelist, Arlington Commission for the Arts, 1993, 1994
Performance: The Ladders of Hell; “Cabaret Revoltaire: Washington Project for the Arts, 1993
"Censorship in the Arts," panel participant, Arts Club (1992); Trinity College (1991)
Performance: Noche Crist’s The Decadent Child, The Anacostia to the Potomac, WPA, 1989

Teaching:

Visiting Artist, National Cathedral School, Washington DC, 2008
Artist-in-Residence, Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC 1997 - 1998
West Shore Community College, Scottsville, MI 1990 - 1996 (summer)
Instructor of Art, Trinity College, Washington DC 1984 - 1987
Instructor of Art, Prince George’s Community College, Largo MD 1980 - 1986
Lansing Community College, Lansing, MI 1973-1979
Oakland University, Rochester, MI  1976

Education:

MFA, Michigan State University   

BS, University of Wisconsin (Stevens Point)

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