309 - Bowman, Judy - Church Girls

Artist:  Judy Bowman

Description:  Church Girls reflects a time from my childhood when the church was an essential part of the black community and my upbringing.  If reflects a time when people wore their Sunday's best to worship, to give honor, and show gratitude.  

Medium: a collage print

Dimensions:  34" x 24"

Market Value:  $1000

Biography:  Judy Bowman is a mixed-media collage artist who was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan.  Her art practice centers on exalting America's Black culture that moves beyond institutional racism and disparaged perspectives of the Black experience.  Considering herself a visual griot, she pays tribute to personal memories from her coming -of-age in Detroit's Eastside and Black Bottom neighborhoods. Bowman's work appears in permanent insitutional Collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Historical Museum, Mack Alive, Detroit, MI the R. W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, LA, the Flint Insitute of Arts, the Federal Reserve Board, Washington DC.  She held her first solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit in 2022.  She is a Kresge Fellow for visutal arts and a 2022 Alain Locke Recognition Awardee.