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BIOGRAPHY
Judd Boloker was born in Smithtown, New York in 1969. He first received art training at the age of ten in the basement of Naomi Shedrofsky, a Long Island artist responsible for starting the art careers of many area children. This training was further supplemented with illustration courses at the Fashion Institute of Technology. The study of Japanese history has brought Eastern influences to his work, while time spent living on both the East and West Coast has exposed him to a wide variety of American culture, landscape, and design elements. His work challenges the passive botanical still life, presenting organic elements influenced by an increasingly hostile climate. Seemingly incongruous subjects are combined (ie: the Arizona desert cactus and Hawaiian tropical textile), further defying the traditional presentation of our environment. Flowers abandon the safety of the vase, bursting off the page like fireworks. Passive reflection is replaced by a more aggressive interaction. His drawings reinterpret the natural world of the 21st century, an era of global warming and environmental trauma. He attempts to portray the continued beauty of the organic with an eye towards the conflict it now faces. The work is created using heavily applied colored pencil on large pieces of Bristol board. Given the detail involved, each drawing takes approximately six to eight weeks to complete. For more information and images, please visit www.Boloker.com
