Judy Giera (Not So Fine Art)

My work moves between painting, sculpture, and sometimes video to address issues of gender, embodiment, and bodily autonomy. My lived experience as a trans woman and the violent bigotry trans people face shape my art practice. I retread routes of feminist art-making through a transfeminist lens, often inspired by art and performance from second-wave feminism. My art appropriates this work's visceral and tactile quality, reifying it through a weird theatrical materiality and saccharine color palette. Breasts, labia, lumps, layers, holes, folds, and nubs appear rendered in paint and manifested in sculptural elements. My material choices range from typical studio fare such as acrylic paint and epoxy resin to craft materials like glitter, foam, and fabric to personal and quotidian items. My work envisions the possibility that the determination of one's own body and expression can be playful, buoyant, weird, and wonderful. Ultimately, I aim to reclaim humor and joy, concepts easily erased from the lives and experiences of women like me.