For over a year now, every discussion with women at art openings…and everywhere else… had us shaking our heads, wringing our hands, and lamenting dark times in Ohio since Roe v. Wade was overturned. Reproductive rights…then and now January 22, 1973: the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade guaranteeing the right to abortion. June 24, 2022: the six to three […]
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Six years ago, I started to pitch my traveling show, Chicks with Balls: Judy Takács paints unsung female heroes, to Ohio museums. I focused on the Zanesville Museum of Art especially. I loved their folksy Central Ohio vibe. The museum sits on a suburban street with a classic red mailbox, next to a home-based tanning salon! It also has a […]
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Before the first Chick took off her shirt and hugged her first ball, I’ve been thinking about a solo museum show for my epic, now decade-old project, Chicks with Balls: Judy Takács paints unsung female heroes. On February 13, 2020, that dream is coming true. Chicks with Balls: Judy Takács paints unsung female heroes will have its (and my) first […]
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Stanka Kordic Martin O’Connor John A. Sargent, III Judy Takács Contemporary Figurative Realism is a movement that has been brewing on the coasts for over a decade. Cleveland’s own figurative artists have also been passionately painting humans with an eye to truth, beauty and the beauty of the truthful depiction…physically and emotionally. To own a masterful depiction of a human […]
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“Chicks with Balls” is now a phenomenon. And my growing, living, traveling portrait exhibition called “Chicks with Balls: Judy Takács paints unsung female heroes” returns to Northeast Ohio with a solo show at Tri-C Gallery East, opening October 29th from 6:00 to 8:30. Back in 2010, “Chicks” was just a nutty painting idea: I asked female friends and family […]
Read moreWhen Arists Archives of the Western Reserve executive director Mindy Tousley asked me to curate a figurative show to honor Women’s History Month in March 2015, and to include my own work, she didn’t have to ask twice. Eagerly and quickly, I chose my dream team of Archived Artists for the exhibition we call Majority Rising. Feminist issues […]
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