
The COMMA Fine Art Gallery presents a two-woman show
RECURRENCE + RESISTANCE
combining new and previously unseen work by
Judy Hodge and Mary Joy Murphy
on view from January 6 to February 2, 2024
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This show brings together curated examples of Judy Hodge’s new body of work exploring bold gestures, rhythmic motion and negative space together with a new series of black and white work by Mary Joy Murphy.
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Presenting: Convo @ The COMMA: behind the show
Artists Talk and Curators Forum
January 20, 2024
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Meet the artists on view and hear their insight on the work in show and process at The COMMA on Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024.
The COMMA invites visitors to the gallery to observe and engage with the artists as they share an afternoon of artists talks and informal conversation. Hodge and Murphy will offer insight on their work and process for the the public in the hopes that it will assist in connecting with their works and see them in a deeper light.
Visitors to the gallery are encouraged to arrive early to view the artist's works and revisit the exhibit afterward and share how their appreciation or perception of the work is altered after connecting with the artists.
At the artists' invitation, the curators of The COMMA will also host an informal conversation, sharing motivations and thoughts behind the curation of RECURRENCE + RESISTANCE, the philosophy of COMMA and a glimpse of "behind the show."
Gallery Hours: 12 - 3
Artists Talks: 1-3
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JUDY HODGE is an exhibiting member of the Buffalo Society of Artists. Her bold use of color and expressionism is, as she says, "...about movement, light, energy and the power of and my personal connection to holy nature. I call my work modern impressionism. It is bold, painterly and designed to evoke a strong sense of place. I paint the emotions and mood of the places I walk."
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She holds a BFA in Painting and an MA in Painting and Computer Science. Mentors include Walter Prochownik, Seymour Drummlevitch and Tony Conrad. She is influenced by: Canadian Group of Seven, Charles Burchfield and VanGogh.
After 25+ years as a creative director for advertising agencies in Orlando, Scottsdale, Boston and Buffalo, she returned to painting in 2014. In 2009, she worked with Academy Award winner Gerda Weissmann Klein to illustrate Weissman Klein’s book, “One Raspberry.” She is a two-time recipient of the Buffalo Society of Artists Gold medal, in 2017 and again in 2021 and is a former BSA board member.
Hodge's "April Pointe" was recently accepted as part of the permanent collection of the Burchfield Penney Art Center. Her work can also be found in galleries, museums, private and corporate collections in the US, Canada and Japan.
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MARY JOY MURPHY is a Buffalo artist, an advocate for the arts, an active community board member, and a volunteer for many Western New York organizations. She is known throughout the region for promoting local artists and the arts. Best-known accomplishment to date is her involvement in “Herd About Buffalo,” a widely popular and highly regarded fundraising collaboration between the Burchfield-Penney Art Center and Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
Her most recent solo show, Color in Motion, included fifty abstract paintings at the Carnegie Art Center. This body of paintings was influenced by her years as a textile printer, her year-long travel, and her passion for texture. Her current work explores the bold graphic work she is known for in black and white and makes use of natural beeswax as a resist, to explore negative space and repetitive patterns and mark making.
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Recurrence + Resistance will be on view through February 3.




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