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Judy D. Shane’s photographic artworks explore an interdisciplinary dialogue between painting and photography that question the space between the two disciplines from both manual and digital perspectives. By using focally stacked macro photographs to examine the micro world of the hand painted brushstroke, she creates large-scale photographic digital composites that exhibit a hyper-materiality and a three-dimensional realism while remaining rooted in a two-dimensional format. Her work continually navigates between the real and the unreal, transforming what should be merely the building block of a picture into a fully realized image in its own right. These artworks yield a magnified sense of rich colour and visual minutia of the original subject matter, details which would otherwise be difficult to observe with the naked eye. Shane intentionally creates only one original lens-based artwork rather than a numbered edition usually associated with photographic art practices.
Judy D. Shane is a bachelor of fine arts graduate (Emily Carr University – 2012) based in Vancouver, BC. Her lens-based art practice is informed in part by her previous career as a visual effects compositor in the television and film industry where she received nominations for an Emmy Award (Best Visual Effects – 2001), a Gemini Award (Best Visual Effects – 2001) and two Leo Awards (Best Visual Effects in a Dramatic Series – 2001). Shane has exhibited her work in both solo exhibitions (“The Painted Photograph”, Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2017; “The Painted Photograph”, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, BC, 2014) and group exhibitions (“To Make Measurable What Is Not So”, The Reach Museum Gallery, Abbotsford, BC, 2016; “Illumination”, Agora Gallery, New York City, NY, 2016). Her work can be found in the national collection of the Canada Council Art Bank. She is represented Kostuik Gallery in Vancouver, BC.