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Judy McSween Familiar Abstracts

Solo Exhibitions
Free Your Mind, Dare Gallery, Coming March 2024
The Ireland Collection Preview, Charleston, SC September 2023
Transported, Dare Gallery, Charleston, SC March 3-31, 2023
Road Trippin', Dare Gallery, Charleston SC Feb 4-25, 2022
Take me With You, North Charleston City Gallery, North Charleston SC, April 28, 2017-May 25, 2017
Wash Over Me, Saul Alexander Gallery, Charleston Public Library, January 2-January 31, 2016

Group Exhibitions
Big Tiny Show, Knoxville TN Nov 2023-Jan 2024
no place like home, MidwestNice Virtual juried show, October 2023
Amethyst Envision Arts Online April 1-30, 2023
Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition 2023 City Gallery Mar-May2023
We See: Creating From Verse NAWA SC Online March-May 2023
It's A Colorful Life NAWA, Flushing Bank, NYC Jan-March 2023
Depth Perception, Wellfleet MA Feb 1-28, 2023
Big Tiny Show, District Gallery, Knoxville, TN November 2022
Artists Collective Annual Juried Exhibition Sept 13-Oct 22, 2022 Spartanburg, SC
Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibit,City Gallery,Charleston May 2022
ArtFields 2022, Lake City SC April 22-30, 2022
Figures, Art Fluent Online Curated Exhibition, January 2022
Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibit,City Gallery Charleston,SC May 2021
New Members Exhibition NAWA Online November 2020 - January 2021
Abstracts Matter Juried Exhibit, Gallery 311, Raleigh, NC March 5-28, 2020
Human.Kind, Edward Dare Gallery, Charleston SC March 2020
Piccolo Spoleto Juried Outdoor Art Exhibition, Charleston, SC May 24-June 9, 2019
Atalaya Juried Fine Arts Festival, Huntington Beach State Park, SC Sep. 2018
Tales of the Sea Juried Exhibit Sea Haven MI, May 19-July 14, 2018
Piccolo Spoleto Juried Outdoor Art Exhibition, Charleston, SC May 25-June 9, 2018
8th Annual Fine Art Invitational Artwalk at Bohicket, Seabrook Island SC, March 31, 2018
Souvenirs of Summer Juried Exhibit, Fabulon Gallery, Charleston SC Aug. 14-Oct. 6, 2017
Piccolo Spoleto Juried Outdoor Art Exhibition, Charleston, SC May 26-June 11, 2017
The Art Market Juried Exhibit at Honey Horn, Hilton Head Island, SC April 28-29, 2017
Champions for the Arts, Historic Downtown Clermont, FL, Nov. 5-6, 2016,
Coming Home, Trumbull Art Gallery, Warren Ohio, Sep.24-Nov. 5, 2016
Piccolo Spoleto Juried Outdoor Art Exhibition, Charleston, SC May 27- June11, 2016
Atalaya Juried Fine Arts Festival, Huntington Beach State Park, SC Sep. 2015
North Charleston Fine Arts Festival, Charleston SC, May 2014
Rosewood Arts Festival, Columbia, SC Sept.2014
Atalaya Juried Fine Arts Festival, Huntington Beach State Park, SC Sep. 2013
North Charleston Fine Arts Festival, Charleston SC May 2013
Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibit, Charleston Visitors Center, SC May 25-June 8, 2012
North Charleston Fine Arts Festival, Charleston SC May 2012
Teachers as Artists Exhibit I, Goose Creek, SC May 17-June 8, 2011 Teachers as Artists Exhibit II, Runaway Bay at Riverfront Park, N Charleston, SC May 2011
Dorchester District II Student /Teacher Exhibit, Summerville, SC September 2009
Mosaic 2007 Exhibit, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC Feb-May 2008

Awards
Second Place, We See Creating From Verse, April 2023
Honorable Mention, Amethyst Online Exhibition, April 2023
Best Painting Award, Piccolo Spoleto Exhibition, Charleston, 2022
Honorable Mention, Piccolo Spoleto Outdoor Artist Exhibition, 2019
Second Prize, Tales of the Sea Exhibit, Sea Haven MI, 2018
2017 Design Winner North Charleston Art Festival, Scraping the Sky II
Award of Excellence, Champions for the Arts, Clermont, FL, Nov 2016
Honorable Mention, Acrylics, North Charleston Fine Arts Festival, 2014
Honorable Mention, Oil, North Charleston Fine Arts Festival, 2013

Workshops
Break Free & Loosen Up!Brave & Bold Abstract Painting Coming July 2024
Finding and Painting The Essence of Landscape, Redux Contemporary Art at WildAcres, NC July 23-28 2023
Mixed Media Exploration, Redux at WildAcres, NC July 16-22 2023

Presentations
Guest Artist, Live Painting Demonstration, North Charleston Fine Arts Festival Opening Reception, April 2021
Guest Artist, Charleston Artist Guild Artistic Develeopment Program Critique, February 2021
Live Painting Demonstration, Charleston Food and Wine Festival, March 2019

Education
BFA with Specialization in Painting, Magna Cum Laude, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 1983

Collections
Denver, CO/Park City, UT/NewYork, NY/Brooklyn, NY/Boston, MA/ Atlanta, GA/Chicago, IL/Pittsburgh,PA /Greenville, Delaware/ Minneapolis, MN/Michigan /Tupelo, MS/Missouri/Asheville, NC/Blowing Rock, NC/Charlotte, NC/Durham, NC/North Dakota/Overland Park, KS/ Fort Wayne, IN/ Kentucky/ Oklahoma /Maine /Seattle, WA/Cleveland, OH/ Columbus, OH/Arlington, VA/ Knoxville,Tennessee/ Hawaii/Oregon City, Oregon/ California/ Tampa, FL/Orlando, FL/Irving, TX/Charleston,SC/ Ontario, Canada/ Ireland