Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP

Memory Project-Jimmy Clark-44

USA, 1996
The Clay Studio Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Date acquired:
Materials:
Earthenware
Form - Functional: N/A
Form - Sculptural:
Installation - small/intimate scale
Method:
Carved
Hand-Built
Surface Technique: N/A
Kiln Type: N/A
Glazes: N/A
Judy Moonelis

Judy Moonelis hascreated several bodies of sculptural work each related to a human characteristic including memory, listening, touch, and breath. The work is created usinga number of clay forming techniques including hand-building, wheel-throwing, slabs, and pinching.

Moonelis is one of a small group of east coast ceramic sculptors, including Judy Fox and Sergei Isupov, who focus on the figure and a larger national group of established sculptors that includes Viola Frey, Robert Arneson, Mary Frank, Stephen DeStaebler, Jack Earl, and Robert Brady. Moonilis draws inspiration from medical and anatomical images. Many of her early sculptures are one-sided slabs with a definite front and back, both surfaces fully articulated and finished with different themes. This allowed her to express more than one thought in a piece. Gradually she began to make pieces to be seen in the round. Moonelis has always been fascinated with the human body and has used it repeatedly to express her ideas. By 2014 she was creating large installations that grew out of her research about the inside of the body and how it relates to the outside.

The Clay Studio Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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