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# Judith Blankman

Sculpture, installation, and performance art

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- [Architectural sculpture](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/architectural-sculpture/) - Wildfire's Child A fire's aftermath creates a sense of collective angst, sparking action and the need for collective responsibility. This sculpture is the first in the Wildfire's Child series, intended to prompt conversation and thought regarding the threat of wildfire to a community. The visceral quality of the materials combined with children's furniture conveys a
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- [Wildfire's Child Series](https://www.judithblankman.com/wildfires-child-series/) - A fire's aftermath creates a sense of collective angst, sparking action and the need for collective responsibility. The Wildfire's Child series is intended to prompt conversation and thought regarding the threat of wildfire to a community. Prevention is achievable through community commitment to land stewardship - controlled burns, tree and landscape maintenance, and maintaining native
- [Wildfire's Child II](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/outdoor-installation/wildfires-child-ii-2/) - Big Daddy’s Complete Rejuvenating Community GardenEmeryville, California 2024 Burnt branches and twigs collected from Kincaid (2019) and Point (2024) fires in Sonoma County, used children’s furniture, leaves. Dimensions:4.5′ H x 8′ Diameter Built for Placemaking in the Urban Environment exhibition. Funded by Rotten City Cultural District grant. Acknowledgments: Audubon Canyon Ranch’s Modini Preserve in Healdsburg,
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- [Resumé](https://www.judithblankman.com/about/resume/) - Education Installations: Solo Exhibitions Installation/Performances Outdoor Installations: Group Exhibitions Installations: Group Exhibitions Selected Group Exhibitions Awards/Commissions Catalogs and Online Listings
- [Bibliography](https://www.judithblankman.com/about/bibliography/) - Marilyn Hudson, "Rocking the Boat at Bedford," 21st Century Music, June 2001 (pdf), page 4. Meg McConahey, The Press Democrat, "Furnishing Nature with Art: Bay Area artists have brought domestic bliss to Paradise Ridge Winery's year-old Sculpturegrove," May 18, 1997. Gretchen Giles, The Sonoma County Independent, "Domestic Bliss: Artists take the inside out at Paradise
- [Spatial Politics: a Garden](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/outdoor-installation/spatial-politics-a-garden/) - Contract Design CenterSan Francisco, California1994 Group collaborative installation with Janice Sandeen, Susan Leibovitz Steinman, and Andrée Singer Thompson. Also see news articlesJeff Rosenfeld, Weatherwise, “Sculpture: Facing the Elements,” December, 1995/January, 1996.
- [Biography](https://www.judithblankman.com/about/biography-2/) - Judith Blankman’s introduction to sculpture began outdoors in a limestone quarry at Sarah Lawrence College in Provence, France in 1979. She received her BFA from San Jose State University in 1981 and MA and MFA degrees from San Francisco State University in 1986 and 1988. Awarded her first solo exhibition at the Institute for Design and
- [Aftermath: quotes](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/texts/aftermath-quotes/) - Built for the Institute for Design and Experimental Art Sacramento, California 1989 (Stenciled in Charcoal Pencil on 5 Wall Sections) A FIRE WILL START AND ITS IN THE GRASS AND MAYBE THE BRUSH AND IT WILL BUILD. THE HEAT RISES, PRE-HEATS THE TREE AND PRETTY SOON IT JUST ALMOST INSTANTLY FLASHES. IT'S A MATTER OF
- [Red River Beds: Santa Rosa](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/outdoor-installation/red-river-beds-santa-rosa/) - Paradise Ridge Winery SculpturegroveSanta Rosa, California1997 Nine beds traverse an imaginary river of air floating, suspended between coastal live oak and bay trees in a lush woodland setting. Transparent mattresses are stuffed with local natural materials. Temporary installation. Salvaged bed parts and wood, paint, fabric, hay, grapevine cuttings. Dimensions: 11' H x 25' W x
- [Weatherwise - Sculpture Facing the Elements](https://www.judithblankman.com/about/bibliography/weatherwise-sculpture-facing-the-elements/) - December 1995/January 1996Volume 48, Number 6 "Some people are weatherwise, but more people are otherwise"—Benjamin Franklin The weather may seem irrelevant to some sculptors, holed up in their studios chipping away, at an immortal stone like marble. But that's not the type of artist who Philip Linhares, chief art curator at the Oakland Museum had
- [Treadwheel Turnstile](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/concept-work-2/treadwheel-turnstile/) - Proposal drawing and model, in collaboration with Shelly Cook Contreras. 1990 Model: Steel, plexiglas, wood.Drawing: Ink on vellum. Isometric, elevation and schematic drawing of an installation/performance for the Kala Institute in Berkeley. Two tread wheels turn on opposite sides of a central axle, activating a turnstile consisting of four mirrored revolving doors. Performers operate the
- [Timbre Bridge](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/outdoor-installation/timbre-bridge/) - Richmond Art CenterRichmond, California1996 A bridge designed like an acoustic guitar. Piano wires were strung across holes drilled in the center of an 8' diameter platform. Sound vibrates through a resonating chamber below as strings are played. Temporary installation. Salvaged wood, gravel, piano tuning pins and piano wire. Dimensions: 6.5' H x 8' W x
- [The Sonoma County Independent - Domestic Bliss](https://www.judithblankman.com/about/bibliography/the-sonoma-county-independent-domestic-bliss/) - Artists take the inside out at Paradise Ridge BY GRETCHEN GILES THE FIRST THING YOU SEE are the beds hanging from the trees. Or is it the chairs--empty-seated if you don't count the large rocks piled inside or them? Perhaps if you came in the other way and encountered first the ordinary bathtub filled with
- [The Dallas Morning News - Earth Angles](https://www.judithblankman.com/about/bibliography/the-dallas-morning-news-earth-angles/) - Volunteers help sculptors place artworks in Connemara's great outdoors by Deborah Bradley The stark North Texas landscape at Connemara conservancy looks more like a place for camouflaged hunters peering from deer blinds than a retreat for artists. And certainly not a place where volunteers can pound nails, paint, bolt, weld, apply clay, haul materials, and
- [The Dallas Morning News - Art Springs Eternal](https://www.judithblankman.com/about/bibliography/the-dallas-morning-news-art-springs-eternal/) - Plano's Connemara comes to life with sculptures, concerts Plano - Serving Collin County and the communities of Allen, Frisco, McKinney and Wylie Friday, March 15, 1996 By Lori FairchildSpecial Contributor to the Dallas Morning News Loyal fans and curious newcomers will share open space, fresh air and artistic interpretations Sunday at Connemara the 72-acre nature
- [Texts](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/texts/) - Aftermath: Excerpts From An Extinct Firehouse: Quotes Taken from interviews with fire fighters. Buried Days Starved Dreams: Auschwitz Memories: Journal excerptsQuotes of Auschwitz victims from posthumously published journals, writings by Auschiwitz survivors and transcripts from oral histories. Comfort Hunger SeriesComfort Hunger texts on the wall, a rug, or base presents quotes from Down and out in Paris and
- [Sutro Baths Project](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/concept-work-2/sutro-baths-project/) - I spent my earlier years developing an approach to defining and articulating the importance of places through sculptural and social investigation. The Sutro Baths Project was my Master of Arts thesis, an investigation of historical, sculptural and social phenomena surrounding a popular recreation site, a ruin on Point Lobos in San Francisco. The project was
- [sup/POSITION](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/indoor-installation/sup-position/) - Southern Exposure GallerySan Francisco, CA1988 MFA exhibition, temporary installation. Wood, copper pipe, dirt, other mixed media. Dimensions:13' H x 13' W x 12' D This site-specific installation responded to the dynamic architectural characteristics of the gallery space, highlighting the clerestory windows that grabbed my attention whenever I was there. Ladders and dirt reach toward visible
- [Red River Beds: San Francisco](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/outdoor-installation/red-river-beds-san-francisco/) - University of San FranciscoSan Francisco, California2000 Seven beds traverse an imaginary river of air floating, suspended between trees scattered in an area of the college campus. Temporary installation. Salvaged bed parts and wood, paint. Dimensions: 11' H x 25' W x 300' L
- [Red River Beds: Poem](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/texts/red-river-beds-poem/) - Hang down tree-lifted resting place,float above my head.Sail to a place that is elsewhere. Where dreams exist as reality,where light and life mix to bring me home, to settleinto a cool clear vision of satisfaction,bathed by a verdant landscapeof change, survival. To wake unknowing. Dreaming, lift me, carry me as airdrifting through skies changing constantly.
- [Reclaiming the Ground Note: Echoes from Broken Vessels](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/installation-performance/echoes-from-broken-vessels/) - Crucible Steel GallerySan Francisco, CA1999 Collaboration with composer Marilyn Hudson. Sound Sculpture installation and performance where abandoned boats were converted into stringed and percussive instruments, a reclamation project symbolizing transformation and rebirth. In derelict boats we saw the possibility of rebirth into vessels of beautiful sound. Musicians Mark Alburger, Opie Bellas, Jeff Nathanson, Ralph Prince
- [Press Democrat - Furnishing nature with art](https://www.judithblankman.com/about/bibliography/press-democrat-furnishing-nature-with-art/) - Bay Area artists have brought domestic bliss to Paradise Ridge Winery's year-old Sculpturegrove By MEG McCONAHEY A weathered farmhouse door stands disconnected in the meadow leading to a grove of gnarled oak. Beyonds dozens of clear glass teacups dangle from tree branches winking in the filtered afternoon light. But these odd little incongruities of civilization
- [Philosophy](https://www.judithblankman.com/about/philosophy/) - I create spatial metaphors for human experience in installation works comprised of architecturally inspired structures. Interested in the psychology of space and a humanistic approach to art, I work with an instinctive approach, fired by impulse and intuition, to create a sense of relatedness both physical and psychological to the immediate surroundings. Social context plays a
- [Peripheral Envision](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/indoor-installation/peripheral-envision-2/) - Irvine Fine Arts CenterIrvine, CA 1988 Built for the Irvine Fine Arts Center, this work made use of the entire room as the structure of the sculpture, utilizing what was otherwise an oddly-proportioned set of walls. The stairwell created a sense of movement toward a hidden place beneath the floor. Temporary installation. Wood, dirt, and
- [Facts about Auschwitz](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/outdoor-installation/buried-days-starved-dreams-auschwitz-memory/facts-about-auschwitz/) - From the Introductionby Lore Shelley, Ph.D. Studies in the Shoah Vol. 1Auschwitz - The Nazi Civilization: Twenty-three Women Prisoner's AccountsAuschwitz Camp Administration and SS Enterprises and Workshops The concentration camp of Auschwitz was formed in May 1940 in the vicinity of the Polish town of Oswiecim, located in the Voivodeship of Cracow, 60 km. west
- [Eindhovens Dagblad - San Francisco Festival Intimate and Intense](https://www.judithblankman.com/about/bibliography/eindhovens-dagblad-san-francisco-festival-intimate-and-intense/) - San Francisco Festival in Eindhoven and Den Bosch May 11, 1992 (Review) BY René van PeerOpening San Francisco festival; performances in De Fabriek en Stadtswandelpark, Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th of May. Last weekend the San Francisco Festival started in De Fabriek with performances in its big hall and in Stadtswendelpark. Conjecturing the type of
- [Eindhovens Dagblad - From Performance to Giant Robots](https://www.judithblankman.com/about/bibliography/eindhovens-dagblad-from-performance-to-giant-robots/) - San Francisco Festival in Eindhoven and Den Bosch May 5, 1992 (Preview) BY René van Peer Opening San Francisco festival; performances in De Fabriek and Stadtswandelpark, Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th of May. This month De Fabriek, 2B and De Effenaar in Eindhoven and V2 in Den Bosch present a festival from 7 artists from
- [Contradictions/Indecision: a Treatise to Dispel Myths about the Creative Act](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/installation-performance/contradictions-indecision-a-treatise-to-dispel-myths-about-the-creative-act/) - San Francisco FestivalDe FabriekEindhoven, Netherlands1992 This temporary installation/performance was created for an alternative space in a former factory in Holland. Moving play structures made acoustic sounds resembling industrial machinery, when activated by performers and audience members, to comprise a treatise comparing art with industry and play with work. Wood, fabric, water, plexiglas, file folders, documents,
- [Contemplation](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/indoor-installation/contemplation/) - Spectrum GallerySan Francisco, CA 1991 Based on Bachelardian notions of space, this piece provided a dark, solitary, and quiet place to think atop a steep staircase. Temporary installation. Burnt plywood, lumber, copper sheeting, functioning door with mirror and copper wire mesh, copper rope, paint. Dimensions:12’ H x3’ W x7’ D
- [Outside/Inside/Out](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/indoor-installation/outside-inside-out-2/) - My former studio Bayview DistrictSan Francisco, CA 1988 Temporary installation. Wood, dirt, sheetrock, sycamore branches. This work, my first architectural installation, employed architectural elements that embodied Bachelardian notions about space as a metaphor for the human psyche. The installation grew out of a need to work more intuitively. I think of this phase as a
- [Buried Days Starved Dreams: Auschwitz Memory: Journal Excerpt](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/texts/buried-days-text/) - The Oakland MuseumOakland, California 1994 (Hundreds of pages of first person accounts from Auschwitz victims were copied by my friends from books into journals that were later buried in the ground). JOURNAL EXCERPT When the transports from Bedzin, Sosnowiec had arrived, there was a rabbi of advanced years. A select group knew they were traveling
- [Myths about the creative act](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/texts/myths-about-the-creative-act/) - Make it Contextual. Make it Personal. Make it Political.Give it Social Significance. Add Meaning.Mock the Art Establishment. No, mimic the Art Establishment.Make it Mainstream. Make it Expensive. No, make it Cheap.Make it Big. Keep it Simple.Make it Understandable. No, keep it Mysterious.Add Nuance and Complexity. Add Depth and Significance.Make Sense. No, be Elusive.Make it Important.
- [Mluv! Speak!](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/outdoor-installation/mluv-speak-2/) - Projekt Polidstèni SidlistèProject of Humanizing a Housing Estate Ostrava, (in the former) Czechoslovakia1992 Dirt mural. Locally gathered dirt adhered to concrete wall. Dimensions: 11 ft. x 11 ft. or 270 cm. x 270 cm I travelled to Ostrava to join Aaron Noble, another artist from the San Francisco Festival in Eindhoven, Netherlands, to drum up
- [From My Inner Crust](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/indoor-installation/from-my-inner-crust/) - Sanchez Art CenterPacifica, California2001 Temporary installation. Salvaged: piano carcass, buckets, gravel, dirt, plywood. New: piano wire. 10’ H x 12’ W x 10’ D This participatory installation of piano wire, filled buckets and a piano carcass comprise an aerial instrument, born of the piano. Wires of varied thickness and lengths stretched by a range of
- [Installation performance](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/installation-performance/) - My activation and sound projects involve moving structures, audience participation, and composed and random sound. Motion and sound animate the installation's physicality, adding a dimension that communicates across cultural, language, age and gender boundaries.
- [Concepts - realized and unrealized](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/concept-work-2/) - Some of my concept work was produced individually, others collaboratively. Some intended as concept-only, while others were proposals for competitions. Contradictions/Indecision: a treatise to dispel myths about the creative act 1991This proposal was initially created for Southern Exposure Gallery, in its former space at Project Artaud. The proposal formulated ideas that eventually became the installation
- [Comfort Hunger texts](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/indoor-installation/comfort-hunger-series/comfort-hunger-texts/) - As hand written on the wall, on a rug, or on a base in a square format. Exterior text in blue marker, interior text in red marker Exterior blue text: It is altogether curious, your first contact with poverty. You have thought so much about Poverty -- it is the thing you have feared all your life, the thing
- [Comfort Hunger Series](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/indoor-installation/comfort-hunger-series/) - This series of temporary installations had multiple iterations and evolutions as the work was presented over a period of eight years. The cans of food and bags of rice from this series was donated to local food banks when each show was disassembled. Addressing the state of poverty in the face of plenty, this series
- [Cascadence Score](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/installation-performance/cascadence/cascadence-score/) - Chus Alonso refined the complex instrumentation for this score for Cascandence, a performance installation Funded by an Individual Artist Commission Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grants Program. The score was structured according to the cycles of water. Deshielo (Runoff) Drops of water falling from ice in strainers. This first segment precedes
- [Cascadence collaboration and performers](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/installation-performance/cascadence/cascadence-collaboration-and-performers/) - The Cascadence collaboration includes four musicians and musician/composer Chus Alonso who was also my key sound advisor. Together, the group engaged in a combination of composed and improvised efforts, creating sounds by animating a range of objects engaged with water in a series of rhythms. Chus Alonso, a flautist and percussionist, at the time was
- [Cascadence](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/installation-performance/cascadence/) - 600 Townsend BuildingSan Francisco, CA 2002 Funded by an Individual Artist Commission Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grants Program. Common kitchen implements were the key components used to conduct water in this installation of moving sound sculptures. The public was invited to play the sculptures: slap a clapping pool, tip rocking
- [Carry Me Away from Here so I Can: San Francisco, CA](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/outdoor-installation/carry-me-away-from-here-so-i-can-san-francisco/) - Contract Design CenterSan Francisco, California 1995 This wheel mounted with eight red sails has one word from the title text painted on each sail, creating a circular sentence. Spinning backward and forward, unpredictably driven by the wind, the wheel performs a metaphor. Temporary installation. New and salvaged wood, salvaged aluminum pipe, foam, cloth, gravel, earth,
- [Carry Me Away from Here so I Can: Plano, Texas](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/outdoor-installation/carry-me-away-from-here-so-i-can-plano-texas/) - Connemara ConservancyPlano, Texas 1996 This wheel mounted with eight red sails has one word from the title text painted on each sail, creating a circular sentence. Spinning backward and forward, unpredictably driven by the wind, the wheel performs a metaphor. Temporary installation. New and salvaged wood, salvaged aluminum pipe, foam, cloth, gravel, hay, reeds, water.
- [Buried Days, Starved Dreams: Auschwitz Memory](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/outdoor-installation/buried-days-starved-dreams-auschwitz-memory/) - Oakland MuseumOakland, California 1994 This installation is my response to a 1992 visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. Groups of friends gathered to copy first-person accounts by Auschwitz-Birkenau victims into journals that were buried under trees, unearthed, read, and re-buried by museum visitors. Temporary installation. Wood, journals, piano carcass, human hair, stones, burnt branches,
- [8-Ball Obbligato](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/installation-performance/8-ball-obbligato/) - South Beach Billiardsfor Secession GallerySan Francisco, CA1992 WORKSSan Jose, CA 1993 Wood and metal instruments made with billiard balls and cue sticks. Installation/performance designed for South Beach Billiards in San Francisco for “Pool”, a performance event sponsored by Secession Gallery. This work consisted of both composed and improvisational music involving live and recorded acoustic instruments
- [Room Light Blue Hue](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/indoor-installation/room-light-blue-hue-2/) - Seeking It Through Exhibitions (S.I.T.E.) Culver City, California1988 This site-generated installation consisted of blue gels placed in a grid pattern and aligned to form one large filter to receive the abundant light from the large window to subtly alter the color of the room. Temporary installation. 42 Theatrical gels and nylon wire. Dimensions: 12' H
- [AFTERMATH: Excerpts from an Extinct Firehouse](https://www.judithblankman.com/artwork/indoor-installation/aftermath-excerpts-from-an-extinct-firehouse/) - Institute for Design and Experimental Art (IDEA)Sacramento, California1989 Temporary installation. Wood, burnt lumber and branches, redwood tree, water, rope, mirrors, candles, and charcoal pencil. See the Aftermath quotes page for wall text. Dimensions: 9' H x 10' W x 100' L Created for a renovated fire station, this installation combined physical elements to address the
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