Judith Jacobson Magee (NC, 20th Century), Transfixed

circa 1980s-1990s, carved stone in the form of a standing figure, unsigned.
14 in.
Judith Jacobson Magee grew up in the artistic communities of New Hope, Pennsylvania, and Greenwich Village, New York City. Her young life was full of writers, photographers, sculptors, painters, and Broadway artists, making art was a vital part of life. As a young woman, Judy ran a photography development shop with a friend out of her parents’ basement. Judy studied sculpture at Bennington College with Simon Moselsio and apprenticed with Bil Baird Marionettes. For a few semesters, she taught courses in puppetry with ordinary/found objects in the local Vermont schools.

After college, Judy trained and worked professionally as a children’s librarian, but spent her spare time taking weaving workshops (loom and tapestry) at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, and learning carpentry skills to build items for her children. When visiting her parents, she took classes in woodcarving with Gerd Utescher and created several carved panels. She moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1971 and thrived in its artistic communities. She dove into crafts such as welding, 19th-century soap making, batik, origami, and knitting. Judy taught children’s puppetry classes through the Ann Arbor Parks and Recreation Department and demonstrated various craft techniques at local museums and fairs.

Judy was an active member of the Ann Arbor Handweavers Guild participating in seasonal shows. She studied basket making for many years with Theresa Ohno and took workshops with First Nation Elders. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, she studied sculpture with John Pappas of Eastern Michigan University, Philip Grausman of the University of Michigan, drawing with Fred Horowitz from Washtenaw Community College and the University of Michigan, and printmaking. In 2012, she moved to Durham, North Carolina, and enjoyed wood carving with mentor David Langham of Hillsborough, North Carolina. In collaboration with David and iron artist Perry Whitted of Durham, North Carolina, she realized her vision for the mobile Butterfly sculpture (2019).
From the Collection of the late Judith Jacobson Magee, Durham, North Carolina
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Good estate condition.