Artist Profile: Judy Crissey

Judy Crissey

3901 N. Mulberry Drive
Kansas City, MO 64116

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Award-winning artist, Judy Crissey pushes the limits in acrylic painting with her process-driven inspiration and practice. Crissey’s abstract work is rooted in a neo-feminist abstract expressionism, or what the laywoman could call "arguments without words." Crissey taught young people for fourteen years at Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art which reinforced to her the idea that art is about process over product. Additionally, Crissey was influenced by her studies at the Kansas City Art Institute with Tucson-based painter, Josh Goldberg, and Phillomene Bennett of Kansas City. Spending many years out west, and the warm desert hues emerge throughout her body of work. Find her at JudyCrisseyart.com “I let the painting navigate my journey and together we often reach a destination that I had not intended. On this journey, my passion is the action of putting paint on a canvas. The repetition of patterns, line, shape and color art become intuitive as I release control. The unity of opposites, dark versus light create balance within the painting with the combination of medium, makes for one exciting trip. Through this mysterious release, I allow the painting to be what it wants to be.” Art by Judy Crissey, it’s not just mixed media, it’s a dramatic range of emotionally driven journeys; conversations about traveling through dark and stormy places and into joy and light.