Featured Artist/Artwork
Tiny Twisted Theatre
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Judith creates miniature dioramas and vignettes using her former jewelry crafting skills and clever storytelling. Her love for putting together puzzles facilitates the creation of these room boxes and bubbles or cloches, finding the perfect piece to fit into each of her story lines. Judith possesses a profound sense of accomplishment in re-imagining her world of miniatures and tiny creatures when she feels the piece is complete.
Judith’s themes embody haunting nightmares and a taste for dark humor creating somewhat macabre but magical stories. By using skeletons as her dolls in her strange, dark and amusing creations, Judith transforms even the most mundane daily event into an experience of wonderful nightmares and amusement. A side dish of crazy, quirky cats keeps the observer’s eyes roaming around the scene to try and catch every ’Tiny Twisted’ moment of these amazing scenes just like Theatre! This is where and how Tiny Twisted Theatre becomes real.
Understanding that her work appeals to a limited audience, Judith’s scenes give her the opportunity to feel like a story-teller giving her curious spectators something to think about, laugh about and hopefully delight in. Judith is not a dollhouse kind of girl but wishes to embrace her love for horror films and expand upon that genre in her designs.
PROCESS
Judith’s artistic process comes in different forms. At times it begins in a dream state; a fleeting glimpse of scenes from her dreams, at times it is something a person says when she is away from my work which pushes her back into the studio to sketch or research a scene starting to develop. Sometimes she remembers reading a horror novel or watching a horror movie and begins to see pictures and ideas in miniature. Judith will then go through her inventory and pick what works and then research what might be missing to finish the puzzle.
Each piece dictates the materials and set of skills necessary to complete the story whether it is a tiny piece of satin or velvet for a Vampire cape, some wooden sticks for the floorboards, or simply some paint or a stain to finish some floors or walls. All the while Judith is thinking of ways to bring in her quirky cats to throw off the story line.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Recently, she submitted her work to the Beverly Hills Art Show, her first time exhibiting in a juried art show. The Beverly Hills Art Show has been going on for 45+ years and is produced by the City of Beverly Hills each May and October. Spanning four blocks of Beverly Gardens Park in the heart of Beverly Hills, the artSHOW features 250 fine artists and draws crowds of 40,000. Judy is proud to have won Honorable Mention for Tiny Twisted Theatre in the Mixed Media 3D category. Her work also garnered a great deal of positive reactions and praise from the crowds visiting her tiny booth.
http://www.beverlyhills.org/exploring/beverlyhillsartshow/?NFR=1
http://www.beverlyhills.org/cbhfiles/storage/files/4249481291739822973/SpecialFeature-Ghostly.pdf
She has also been published in ‘The Horrorzine’ an online magazine for all things horror. She is The Featured Artist for the month of February.
http://www.thehorrorzine.com/Art/Feb2018/JudySachs/JudySachs.html
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