Judith Black: Tangible Memories

Friday, June 6 - Sunday, July 20, 2025
Opening reception: Friday, June 6, 2025, 6 - 8:30pm

 

Installation view

“I have concentrated for most of my career on a subject close to home… my family and self. When I began seriously photographing in 1979 as a graduate student, raising a large and young family as a single mother made it almost impossible to explore my new neighborhood to find a compelling project. Between classes, work and children, there was little energy or time left. My home became my “studio.”

Thinking about how to make sense of over 40 years of photographing my family and self, I realize that the photographs I have exhibited are a family album and a diary. They present to viewers a household with individuals, interpersonal relationships, and implied narratives. The names, dates, and occasions hint at the stories hiding just beneath the surface of the prints.

For me, though, the photos have a more complex meaning. They are actual physical memories, a way for me to hold and to remember both the pleasures and pains of being part of and raising a family. Talismans, relics, fetish objects, memory holders - they are mine to touch.”

- Judith Black

 

 

JUDITH BLACK, Self (with Laura), May 25, 1968
17 1/2 x 17 5/8 inches | 44.45 x 44.76 cm.
Vintage gelatin silver print

 

 

JUDITH BLACK, Johanna, August 23, 1987
17 x 22 inches | 43.18 x 55.88 cm.
Vintage gelatin silver print

 

 

JUDITH BLACK, Self with Kids (Before leaving on vacation with their father),
July 14, 1984
17 x 22 inches |43.18 x 55.88 cm.
Vintage gelatin silver print

 

 

Installation view

 

 

JUDITH BLACK, Laura (Father's Day, her birthday early, mine late, 17.5 weeks) (For Lucas), June 15, 1997
20 x 96 inches | 50.8 x 243.84 cm.
Quadtych of four vintage gelatin silver prints
Unique

 

 

Installation view

 

 

JUDITH BLACK, Rob (with Malcolm’s blanket), April 9, 2000
24 x 40 inches | 60.96 x 101.6 cm.
Diptych of two vintage gelatin silver prints
Unique

 

 

JUDITH BLACK, Self-portrait, July 1, 1994
22 x 17 inches | 55.88 x 43.18 cm.
Vintage gelatin silver print

 

 

JUDITH BLACK, Laura (Mother’s Day), May 14, 1995
18 x 23 inches | 45.72 x 58.42 cm.
Vintage gelatin silver print

 

 

JUDITH BLACK, Malcolm and Laura (nap time), June 10, 2000
20 X 72 inches | 50.8 x 182.88 cm.
Triptych of three vintage gelatin silver prints
Unique

 

 

JUDITH BLACK, Laura and Self, September 8, 1980
14 x 14. inches | 35.56 x 35.56 cm.
Vintage gelatin silver print

 

 

Installation view