Judith Hoyt
Judith Hoyt has been making art from found metal and paper collage with encaustic for thirty- seven years. Her work is inspired by the natural beauty of her native environment, the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson Valley of New York. Judith said,“I have been thinking lately about the relationship we humans have with the natural world, how we transform it and how it transforms us.” Judith makes up small narratives and depicts them in found metal and paper collage.
Judith describes her process as a dialog between her and the materials she collects. This material is discolored, corroded and misshapen by the random process of history and intuitively arranged to take shape as a composition. It has been said about Judith’s work that it , “...looks as though in the melding of collage elements, the alchemy of art transmuted the individual parts into a new whole.”
Hoyt’s work appears in a number of publications including,( Vol.34/No.2/Metalsmithing Magazine, 2014), “On Body and Soul: Contemporary Armor to Amulets” by Suzanne Ramljak (2014), “The Female Gaze” by Robert Cozzolino (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 2012). Her work is included in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum (New York), Pennsylvania Academy of Arts, and …
Judith Hoyt has been making art from found metal and paper collage with encaustic for thirty- seven years. Her work is inspired by the natural beauty of her native environment, the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson Valley of New York. Judith said,“I have been thinking lately about the relationship we humans have with the natural world, how we transform it and how it transforms us.” Judith makes up small narratives and depicts them in found metal and paper collage.
Judith describes her process as a dialog between her and the materials she collects. This material is discolored, corroded and misshapen by the random process of history and intuitively arranged to take shape as a composition. It has been said about Judith’s work that it , “...looks as though in the melding of collage elements, the alchemy of art transmuted the individual parts into a new whole.”
Hoyt’s work appears in a number of publications including,( Vol.34/No.2/Metalsmithing Magazine, 2014), “On Body and Soul: Contemporary Armor to Amulets” by Suzanne Ramljak (2014), “The Female Gaze” by Robert Cozzolino (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 2012). Her work is included in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum (New York), Pennsylvania Academy of Arts, and the Racine Art Museum (Wisconsin).
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