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Email PageRitual Space
March 16, 2006- April 22, 2006
Vaughan Judge
511 Gallery
529 W 20th St Vaughan Judge Temptation of Mary (2006) |  Vaughan Judge Temptation of Mary 2 (2006) |
All the scenes in the photographs are shot in a Scottish basement with low ceilings, bare brick walls, and cement support posts. In Temptation of Mary 1, four young women— possibly still teenagers—sweep, vacuum and dust up a room replete with a giant snakelike form folding down from the rafters, two white angels, and garlands of red roses. In the center sits “Mary,” in her black halter and blue jeans, on a high wooden stool with her hands folded demurely and her legs crossed. By Temptation of Mary 2, the angels and roses have gone, a smaller snake spits from the overhead rafter, and two couples dance and hold each other closely. In this image, Mary, now standing awkwardly and as if in pain, is decidedly several months pregnant.
George and the Angel and Pegasus offer exotic and beautiful reincarnations of the fabled stories, here with masks and wall drawings forming the backdrops for tales made disturbing in their supposedly middle-class environments. Sisyphus and Monstrous Tales, the only black and white images in the exhibition, foreground an apparently ordinary Scotsman, perhaps a neighbor, in the same bizarre basement setting. Vaughan
Judge is a consummate photographer whose concerns with color content, storytelling, and the processes of photography are those of artist and teacher together. Judge works with photograms, scarified or drawn-on negatives, and chromogenic and silver gelatin prints. He is Chair of the Photography Department at the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, and his work is included in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dow Jones Company, and Navigator Foundation collections, among others.
This is the artist’s second solo exhibition in New York.
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