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Jude Schlotzhauer - Skeletal Artfacts
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Jude Schlotzhauer is a full time studio artist, with a BFA from American University and an MFA from Va Commonwealth University. She taught glass working for 30 years at VCU and as a visiting artist at universities and art centers across the country and in Mexico and Malaysia. Installations include works on public sites, such as a twenty foot mural in the VCU dining center, a sculpture in the Richmond Children's Museum, an outside glass wall at Randolph Community Center, windows and tile floor for a Fire Station, and a hanging panel installation at the Medical College of Va. hospital. Most of her work is in private and corporate collections, including The Tacoma Art Museum (Wash.), Capital One, Dominion Energy, Chesapeake Capital Corporation, and three glass walls in a Marine Officer's Club in Iwakuni, Japan. Her work can be seen on her website at Judeglass.com.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
Life grows where life dies, a never ending dance of nature and spirit. I see bones and skulls as artifacts, stripped bare to reveal their essence. They represent something that has gone before, and which carries forward knowledge and lessons from the past. My work is much about the natural world, so I like to incorporate natural objects into some of the pieces. These growing things are bare except for the skulls, like fruit silently conveying a message, that life, although resilient, is also fragile, and hangs in the balance. I want the message to be hopeful as well as a warning. The reliquary boxes that hold the skulls, ornate and elegant, give them importance and make them sacred. The three birds (perfectly preserved after being trapped in a chimney) have been given translucent wings as a wish for an “escape.”
Life grows where life dies, a never ending dance of nature and spirit. I see bones and skulls as artifacts, stripped bare to reveal their essence. They represent something that has gone before, and which carries forward knowledge and lessons from the past. My work is much about the natural world, so I like to incorporate natural objects into some of the pieces. These growing things are bare except for the skulls, like fruit silently conveying a message, that life, although resilient, is also fragile, and hangs in the balance. I want the message to be hopeful as well as a warning. The reliquary boxes that hold the skulls, ornate and elegant, give them importance and make them sacred. The three birds (perfectly preserved after being trapped in a chimney) have been given translucent wings as a wish for an “escape.”
