Discipline: Visual Art

Judith Hoyt

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New Paltz, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1993
Judith Hoyt has been making art from found metal and paper collage for more than 30 years. At age 15, she began taking classes at Art Awareness, Lexington, New York. She continued her art studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where she earned a B.F.A. in printmaking in 1980. After graduation, access to a press was sporadic. Judith began to work with collage using found materials. She returned to school and worked under acclaimed metalsmith Robert Ebendorf. Later, Judith discovered encaustics and added that to her palette. Judith’s process is a dialectic one, between her and the materials she collects. This material is discolored, corroded, and misshapen by the random process of history and intuitively arranged to take shape as a composition. Her work is included in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum (New York), Pennsylvania Academy of Arts (Philadelphia), The Smithsonian Museum, (Washington, DC), and the Racine Art Museum (Racine, Wisconsin). Hoyt’s solo shows have been at such venues as the Garrison Arts Center, Garrison, NY (2010); Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY (2012); and Wired Gallery, High Falls, NY (2015). Her work has been featured in such group shows as Cut and Paste, Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery (2013); Featured Artist, Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (2012); and is a finalist for the second time for the Rapheal Prize at the center for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, PA (2018). Hoyt’s work appears in a number of publications including, Metalsmith Magazine (2014), On Body and Soul: Contemporary Armor to Amulets by Suzanne Ramljak (2014), The Female Gaze by Robert Cozzolino, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (2012), and Jaimee MacDonald’s Jewelry from Recycled Materials (A&C Black Publishers Limited, 2009).

Studios

Mixter

Judith Hoyt worked in the Mixter studio.

Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…

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