Jude Broughan
Jude Broughan: Lumination
Exhibition dates (online): July 9 – September 18, 2020
Benrubi is pleased to present Lumination by Jude Broughan, a captivating new suite of eight unique works relating to the eight phases of the Lunar month. Broughan combines original photography with painting, printmaking, and natural and synthetic fabrics. These diverse elements are sliced, stitched, and stuck together in formal compositions, which are both abstracted and allegorical.
Eight phases of the Moon
Many moons to go
Night swimming, mysterious wildlife
Leaves decompose and algae grow
Water Nature’s midwife
All born bare in the flow
- Jude Broughan
“Broughan inhabits two worlds: one visible, one internal. She’s shooting a real place, but she’s experiencing it like a shard of half forgotten memory… [she] places her subjects in personal, rather than general social contexts. Or, rather, she wishes to re-personalize the general social context: a dream all emigrants share”
- Ratik Asokan, Village Voice
Jude Broughan is New Zealand-born artist, now based in Brooklyn, New York. She has had solo exhibitions at venues including Marisa Newman Projects, New York (2017), Benrubi Gallery, New York (2017), Calder and Lawson Gallery, Hamilton, New Zealand (2015), Dimensions Variable, Miami (2014), and Churner & Churner, New York (2014). She has been included in many group exhibitions, at venues including Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami (2019); Jarvis Dooney Gallerie, Berlin (2018); Document, Chicago (2017); Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, New Zealand (2017); Magnan Metz, New York (2015); Dorfman Projects, New York (2015); Youme Haus, Brooklyn (2014); and the Essl Museum, Vienna (2013).
Broughan received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, an MFA from Hunter College, and is a 2015 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grantee. She currently teaches art at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and the State University of New York College at Old Westbury.
Broughan’s work has been discussed in Art in America, Blouin Artinfo, Collector Daily, Eye Contact, the Village Voice, and Whitehot Magazine, among others.
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Night Swimming artists' book
In conjunction with Lumination, we are pleased to present Jude Broughan's new artists' book NightSwimming. It features the eight works from the online exhibition, which relate to the eight phases of the Lunar month. The poems come from notes Broughan writes on the floor while making the works. One symbol throughout is the pool as a metaphor for society, and ideas around that.
In conjunction with Lumination, we are pleased to present Jude Broughan's new artists' book NightSwimming. It features the eight works from the online exhibition, which relate to the eight phases of the Lunar month. The poems come from notes Broughan writes on the floor while making the works. One symbol throughout is the pool as a metaphor for society, and ideas around that.
Attached here is a pdf of NightSwimming for you to enjoy. There will be a limited print edition forthcoming.
Jude Broughan is a New Zealand-born artist living and working in Brooklyn. Her pieces are bold juxtapositions of structure and surface that oscillate between the figurative and the abstract. By layering photographs between vinyl, leather, and mesh, and sewing the printed images directly to the fabric’s surface, Broughan amplifies the voice of a given substance one moment and softens it the next.
JUDE BROUGHAN
Jul 9 - Sep 18, 2020