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BIO Judy Rey Wasserman is the founding artist of UnGraven Image, a new contemporary art theory she intends to become a movement. It is a next step from Conceptual, especially Word Art. In Wasserman's new 16 page booklet, “The Manifesto for UnGraven Image”, she explains her focus on the stroke, specifically strokes that are symbols.
This is art is the intersection of cutting-edge elementary particle physics' M theory and ancient Abrahamic religions but it also references important concepts of duality held by Taoists, Buddhists and Hindis. The strokes themselves are all symbols (the Hebrew letters from original biblical texts). The 22 Hebrew letters symbolically represent the strings (also known as branes) of elementary physics' M Theory, which in this universe and alternate ones also total 22. That Hebrew Torah font letters are all binary references the dualities in both science and religions.
Emulating physical reality, UnGraven Image artworks cannot be read. Here and there the symbol-strikes may be visible, but the strokes are intertwined, jumbled, glazed over, etc. An artwork's meaning is inherent in the strokes. The narrative serves the stroke – rather than the strokes serving only to create the narrative.
Judy Rey's art education includes the Art Student's League, Hunter College and the High School of Music and Art, along with other classes and private studies. Some of her most formative “training” occurred between the ages of 12 to 18 when at least several times a week she spent afternoons and weekend days visiting the galleries and art museums in NYC. They became warm, meaningful havens where she could escape her difficult home life. A great deal was learned from her up front and personal study of Impressionism, Pointillism, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, Pop, the works of Rembrandt, Hals, Goya and Medieval art.
Van Gogh's work passionately conveyed both searing pain and inspiring joy, all in the same painting. This echoed her young feelings. When life felt overwhelming, Judy Rey would flee to the “Cypresses” or “Starry Night”, where she felt most understood and hence, comforted. Art became vitally important.
However, since she felt she had nothing vitally important to contribute, she turned away from art following career paths of script and entertainment writing, business management and sales, spiritual counseling and acting, in addition to being a parent. She was also fascinated with comparative religion, physics, and history plus, of course, art.
Then it all came together. This century, Judy Rey invented a new way of painting using the Hebrew letters as strokes that represent the smallest essential energy-pre-matter units that are the basis of our physical universe. For some those essences are the words of God, for others it is all about science, still others relate to both. So the art is at once secular and religious. Together, we can share a vision -- a new way of seeing the world.
Although the paintings have been shown in galleries, museums, juried shows, plus, churches, synagogues a convent, and non-profit galleries, she is actually just emerging. Since UnGraven Image began in April of 2004, she is just emerging. Judy Rey maintains a large and active web site that includes a weekly inspirational art blog at ungravenimage.com.
"I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed." -- Vincent van Gogh |
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