ABOUT
Alison Judd is a Boston-based painter and printmaker whose work explores nature, memory, and the passage of time. Motherhood is central to her practice, shaping how she thinks about cycles, growth, loss, and transformation.
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She studied painting and art history at Brandeis University and received her Master of Fine Arts in painting and printmaking from Massachusetts College of Art. Recent exhibitions include Vitality at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, The Memory of Leaves at the Huntington Theater Gallery, Be-tween at the Brandeis University Alumni Gallery, and Motherhood as Muse at Concord Art. Her work is held in private and corporate collections across the United States and abroad.
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Alongside her studio practice, Judd curates exhibitions at the Brandeis Alumni Art Gallery and has organized shows at Gallery Tempo. She lives in the Boston area with her husband, three children, and her dog.
STATEMENT
I find inspiration in the everyday, looking for moments of beauty in the mundane and ordinary. A child shoving food into her mouth, leaves casting shadows on the ground, light falling across a familiar room.
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I work in layers, building up paint or ink and then scraping it back. Light comes from underneath. Figures and forms show up that I didn't plan for. I've come to trust that process, and the resonance of what emerges.
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​Being a mother is woven into all of it. Not just in what I paint but in how I pay attention, the impulse to hold onto a moment while knowing it's already changing. I sketch my kids at the end of each day so I won't forget. In my studio practice more broadly, I work from drawings, monoprints, and photos, moving between subjects and series, always coming back to the same questions about memory, time, and what we choose to notice.
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What stays with me is the process itself, the way layers build up and get stripped back, and how something unexpected emerges in between. Memory works the same way, accumulating and fading, never quite still.
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