Judy Youngblood

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Judy Youngblood
Born1948 (age 7576)
El Paso, Texas
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Known forpainting

Judy Youngblood (born 1948 in El Paso, Texas) [1] is an American artist. Youngblood is known for her paintings based on weather phenomena, [2] [3] [4] and also for her mixed media art including paintings, drawings, etchings, and relief prints. [5] [6] She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was associated with the Atelier 17 in Paris. [7] Youngblood taught both printmaking and book arts at the University of North Texas in Denton. [7] [8] Youngblood was a MacDowell Fellow in 1982 and again in 1985, [5] and her work has been included in over three hundred invitational and juried group exhibits. [5] Youngblood has had two solo shows at William Campbell Contemporary Art in Fort Worth including "Changing Weather" in 2014 [2] and "Unsettled Conditions" in 2019. [9] Also in 2019, the Forum Gallery at Brookhaven College (Dallas) hosted a retrospective of her work: Judy Youngblood: The Effects of Time and Weather. [5] [10]

Collections

Youngblood's work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, [1] the Brooklyn Museum [11] and the Dallas Museum of Art. [12]

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