How can I buy a work by Judy Child?

Bruno David Gallery handles the sale of available works by Judy Child. For prices and availability, email info@brunodavidgallery.com or call +1 314 696 2377.

Where can I see work by Judy Child in person?

At Bruno David Gallery, 7513 Forsyth Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63105, during public hours or by appointment. Her work is also in corporate and private collections including Washington University School of Medicine, Emerson Electric, Anheuser-Busch and BlueCross BlueShield.

What does Judy Child make?

Abstract paintings made by pouring and manipulating acrylic, latex and fluid medium on canvas, letting gravity and the drying process shape the surface. Her recent work moves toward sculpture, with cast forms of poured paint.

Where is Judy Child based?

Judy Child lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.

Has Judy Child had an exhibition at Bruno David Gallery?

Yes. Unbounded (10 November 2023 to 20 January 2024); Inner Mappings (12 April to 11 May 2019) are among her exhibitions at the gallery. Catalogues can be read in the gallery’s Publications library at brunodavidgallery.com/publications.

Judy Child

Judy Child is a St. Louis-based painter who explores how versatile paint can be. Setting aside brushes, palette knives and, often, color and narrative, she pours and manipulates acrylic, latex and fluid medium on canvas, letting gravity and the drying process determine the outcome. The paint’s unpredictable movement creates fractures and natural, dynamic surfaces, and each work is a search for something she has not seen before.

Her recent work moves toward sculpture. Drawing on her study of textiles, she pours paint to form cast shapes whose surfaces recall the shadows of draped fabric and folded paper; some pieces extend off the wall in relief, and each takes weeks to dry. This work was shown in Unbounded (2023), her third solo exhibition at Bruno David Gallery, after Revelations (2017) and Inner Mappings (2019).

Child has exhibited since 1987, including numerous solo exhibitions at Elliot Smith Contemporary Art in St. Louis between 1992 and 2002, a solo show at Colby-Sawyer College’s Marian Graves Mugar Art Gallery (1996), and group exhibitions at Art Chicago (1994) and the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art (1997). In 1996 she received a fellowship in painting from the National Endowment for the Arts and Mid-America Arts Alliance.

Her work is in the collections of Washington University School of Medicine, Emerson Electric, Anheuser-Busch and BlueCross BlueShield, among other corporate and private collections. She received a B.S. from Colby-Sawyer College in 1971, studied at the Auckland Society of Arts in New Zealand and attended the Program in Artisanry at Boston University.

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