Judy Csotsits

About

This current body of drawings are a combination of pen, ink, acrylic and colored pencil on mylar. The mylar creates a deep, milky, smooth, white space in which each form levitates and creates the illusion of existing in 3-dimensions. The drawings are created intuitively using only a simple symmetrical structure from which the lines and forms grow.

My work uses the visual language of European architectural aesthetics in their ornate and decorative tendencies coupled with a tradition of dark tales and myths born out of Eastern European life. Some influences include Hans Bellmer, H R Giger, tattoo art, and art nouveau.

The drawings evoke at once an Alien and ancient form combined with a hybrid of plant, animal, and human forms. The movement and repetition in the drawings evoke fractal like structures that are abundant in nature. Evolution is alluded to in the work as each form is an organic hybrid of various forms of life, depicted in a state of transformation and metamorphosis. The insect-like bodies appear to be evolving braids resulting in an overall human shape, thereby dissolving the distinction between plant, animal, and human categories and fusing abstract and figurative elements into one. The ultimate result reflects the evolutionary process of beginning with the simplest, one celled organism evolving into the various complex expressions of life.
… Read More

Website: http://www.judycsotsits.com/

Work

b: Hungary, Europe

EDUCATION

University of CA, Los Angeles BA
Otis College of Art and Design MFA

EXHIBITIONS

2011
July 23- August 25 Chain Letter at Shoshona Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Chain Letter" is a group show wherein 10 artists have been invited to participate. Those 10 then invite 10 artists whom they admire. Those 10 invite 10 more and so on. This cycle continues for 30 days. The result is an exponentially massive, artist-curated group show based entirely on admiration.
Organized by Christian Cummings & Doug Harvey

March 12 - April 7
MSJC Faculty Show, San Jacinto, CA
Faculty members were invited to display their art at the community college art gallery.
http://www.inlandsocal.com/iguide/arts_galleries/content/news/stories/PE_News_Local_E_gallery02.221bdc3.html

2010
Sylvia White Gallery- National Juried Exhibition juried by Sylvia White. Contemporary artists were invited to submit their work for this prestigious group show. 3rd Annual Juried Exhibition
Aug 4 - Sep 4, 2010
SYLVIA WHITE GALLERY 1783 East Main Street Ventura, California 93001 USA
http://picasaweb.google.com/SylviaWhiteGallery/2010JURIEDSHOWAugust4September42010#

myartspace Miami 2010 Competition with SCOPE MIAMI
a juried slide exhibition organized by myartspace.com and included in one of the most recognized Art Fairs in the world.
MIAMI, FL

2009
Emerson Gallery Exhibition, juried show of international artists organized by myartspace
http://www.myartspace.com/nyaxegallery/winners/winnersDec2009.html

Aqua Art Fair Miami, Myartspace.com Palo Alto, CA and Miami Beach, FL November 27, 2009 -- MYARTSPACE.com, the premier online social network for the contemporary art world is pleased to announce the winning artists for the Miami 2009 Art Competition. The winners will be exhibited at the Aqua Art Miami Fair during the week of Art Basel Miami from December 3-6, 2009. The five-person jury panel consisted of Alma Ruiz, Associate Curator at MOCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Michele Urton, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Andrea Cashman, Director of the Deitch Projects, Kathy Grayson, Director of the Deitch Projects and Catherine McCormack-Skiba, CEO.

2006
TARFEST, TarFest Art Exhibition @ Korean Cultural Center Friday, September 25, 2009
Juried by Molly Barnes, Kathy Gallegos, Sinead Finnerty, Peter Frank, Wesley Jessup, Shane
Guffogg, and James Panozzo. Produced in collaboration with the Los Angeles Art Association.

2004
Vivarosi Gallery, Artists’ residency exhibition second phase Budapest, Hungary
In 2004 her work was featured in an exhibition at the Vivarosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, following a 2003 research residency at the Hungarian Multicultural Center in Balatonfured, Hungary.

2002
Balatonfured Town Hall Exhibition, Artists’ residency exhibition
research residency at the Hungarian Multicultural Center in Balatonfured, Hungary. A juried residency for international artisits invited by Beata Szechy. The duration of the residency was two weeks followed by an exhibition of work created during the residency.

Artists Council 33rd Annual National Juried Exhibition,
A national juried exhibition of contemporary art held at the prestigious Desert Museum in Palm Springs, CA

2001
All Media 2001, a national juried exhibition of contemporary art juried by Mark Moore. Awarded the third prize for Art. Exhibition took place in Irvine, CA

Valley Institute of Visual Art,
Third Annual Southern California Open Regional
VIVA Gallery hosted an annual juried exhibition of a select group of Southern California artists.

1998
Orlando Gallery, Judit Csotsits and Irene Nowicky
Converging styles of two Valley-based painters take viewers to the outer limits of their genres.
March 19, 1998|JOSEF WOODARD | SPECIAL TO THE TIMES Two artists based in the Valley have converged on the Orlando Gallery this month, and they take distinctly separate paths to the far side of realist or figurative art. Judit Csotsits has developed a captivating personal style grounded in abstraction, while Irene Nowicki creates a world where biomorphic surrealism is king.
http://articles.latimes.com/1998/mar/19/entertainment/ca-30621

1997
Masters Show, Otis College of Art An exhibition of graduate work created by MFA candidates instructed by Roy Dowell and Rene Petropolous
http://www.otis.edu/alumni/storyofo.html

LA-LV-LA, Group Show of an exchange of art between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, Dave Hickey

1996
Purple Gallery, Group Show curated by Jeremiah Day
Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art, Group Show of Otis

1994
The Landing Gallery, UCLA group show, Westwood, CA

PUBLICATIONS

2010
Studio Visit Magazine juried show of contemporary art published in Studio Visit Art Magazine. Vol. 12
http://studiovisitmagazine.com/volumes12.html

1998
Complementary Visions
Converging styles of two Valley-based painters take viewers to the outer limits of their genres.
ART | SIGHTSMarch 19, 1998|JOSEF WOODARD | SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
http://articles.latimes.com/1998/mar/19/entertainment/ca-30621

TEACHING

Pierce College Project Match taught 2nd semester of community college level painting class. Instructed students on direction and projects. Gave critical feedback.

Mt. San Jacinto College 2-D Design Instructor

… Read More