Judith McMillan

 

 

BORN                          1945 

 

EDUCATION                Cleveland Institute of Art, BFA, 1990

                                    Case-Western Reserve University, MA, 1969

                                    Smith College, BA (Art History), 1967

 

 

SELECTED                  2007     Flowers; KMR Arts, Washington Depot, Connecticut

                                                Optic Explorations / Nesting; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY

                                    2005     Between Science and Art: X-Ray Photographs of Judith K. McMillan,

SOLO                                       Bates College, Lewiston, ME

EXHIBITIONS              2004     New Work, X-Ray Photographs of Judith McMillan, Cleveland Botanical   

Cleveland, OH

Judith McMillan, Gallery V, Columbus, OH

Photovision, Thrive: An Art Space, Cleveland, Ohio

Between Science and Art: X-Ray Photographs of Judith K. McMillan,

University of Richmond Museum, Richmond, VA

Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College, Beloit, IL

United States Botanic Garden, Washington DC

2003     Optic Exploration: Photographs, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA

Between Science and Art: X-Ray Photographs of Judith K. McMillan,

United States Botanic Garden, Washington DC

                                                Between Science and Art: X-Ray Photographs of Judith K. McMillan,

The Peggy Notebaert Nature Center, Lincoln Park, IL

2002        Judith McMillan: Photographs, Hubert Gallery of Fine Art, New York, NY

Between Science and Art, Hopkins Gallery, Cleveland, OH

1999     Working in Series, The Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, OH

Optic Explorations, Cleveland Museum of Natural History                     

                                                Unnoticed Landscapes and Other Work, Lightkeepers Gallery,

                                                Lakewood, OH

Collected Works, Wingspread Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME

Unnoticed Landscapes, Garden Center of Greater Cleveland

 

SELECTED                  2008     "In the Gardeon", Massillon Museum, Massillon, Ohio

GROUP                        2006     "Flowers", Galerie Negulesco. Munich, Germany

EXHIBITIONS                          "20/30 Vision: An Anniversary Celebration"; Bonni Benrubi

                                                Gallery, New York, NY

                                                "Fine Photographs"; AMW, Birmingham, AL

                                    2004     "57 on 57^th"; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC, NY

                                                "In Light"; MB Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

                                    2003      Louis Boston, Boston, MA

                                                Sailor's Valentine Gallery, Nantucket, MA

                                                Object lessons, Everson Museum of Art

                                                Botanica, Tulla Booth Gallery, NY

                                                Photography Past & Present, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA

2002     Paris Photo VI, Caroussel de Louvre, The Louvre, Paris, France

                                                Alternative Images, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC

                                                Black and White; South Wing Gallery, Cleveland, OH

2001     Summer Salon IX: New Pictures , Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC

Summer Salon IX, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, NYC

                                    2000     Inner Visions, Cypress College Photography Gallery

                                    1998     Drawn Together, The Cleveland Museum of Art 

                                                Settings By Eight, Kent State University

1996        73^rd Annual Spring Show, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA

Images From the Heart, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

1995        72^nd Annual Spring Art Show, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA

Gallery Artists, Wingspread Gallery, NE Harbor, ME

1994        Photo Opportunity, Cleveland Center of Contemporary Art

Twenty Fourth Annual Spring Show, Willoughby Fines Arts Association, Willoughby, OH

Landscape of the Mind, Great Northern Corporate Center, OH

Six State Photography, FAVA Gallery, Oberlin, OH

Who's Zoo?, Mansfield Art Center, OH

1993        The May Show,  Cleveland Museum of Art

Envisioned in a Pastoral Setting, Burlington, VT

1992        69^th Annual Spring Show, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA

1991        26^th Annual Photography Show, Jewish Community Center,

 Cleveland, OH

Six State Photography, FAVA Gallery, Oberlin, OH

1990        Fine Arts Juried Exhibition, Willoughby Fine Arts Association

Fantasy of the Eye, Great Northern Corporate Center, OH

McMillan-Matia Show, The Garden Center of Cleveland, OH

1989        McMillan-Shiverick Show, Intown Club, Cleveland, OH

Photography x 3, Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME

10 Cleveland Women, Cleveland Photographic Workshop, OH

                                    1988     The May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

 

COLLECTIONS             Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH

Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

                                    Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH

                                    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

                                    Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH

University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH

                                    Kaiser Permanente Medical Center

                                    Hahn, Loeser and Parks, Cleveland, OH

                                    Greenleaf Capital Management, Cleveland, OH

                                    Sawyer Research, Cleveland, OH

                                    Wastequip, Inc., Cleveland, OH

                                    Everson Museum, NY

Progressive Collection, Cleveland, OH

Ferro Corporation, Cleveland, OH

Biomec, Inc, Cleveland, OH

Pfizer Corporation, New York, NY

Private Collections

                                   

AWARDS         2000     Individual Artist's Grant, Ohio Arts Council

                                    Chilcoate Foundation Award, Cleveland Institute of Art

1996        Golden Light Award, Maine Photographic Workshop, Rockport, ME

1992        Best of Show, Photo Opportunity, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH

1990        Juror's Award, 69^th Annual Spring Show, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA

1988        Ralph Marshall Award for Excellence in Photography, Cleveland Institute of Art

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS           "Judith McMillan"; Exhibition Review by Poebe Hoban ARTnews February 2008

                                    Picture Perfect by Stephanie Hoppen, Aurum Press, 2004

The Gardner's Life, Laurence Sheehan, Clarkson Potter, New York 2004

Flora:  A Contemporary Collection of Floral Photography, Graphis Photos, 2001

                                    Hunting Valley, A History, by Diana Tittle and Mark Gottlieb, 1999

Golden Light Award Winner's Catalog, Maine Photographic Workshops, 1998

Settings by 8, New Work by Northern Ohio Women Photographers, Kent State Press

Images from the Heart, Emmerson Press, Cleveland, OH, 1995

Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Annual Report, 1990-1991

 

 

Artist’s

Statement        For many years I have enjoyed photographing the research collections of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.  Over the past few years my work at the museum has taken a new and exciting direction: I have begun using an X-Ray machine in the department of Physical Anthropology as my camera.  In making these images I am making what amounts to an X-Ray photogram.  I place the material directly on the loaded packet of X-Ray film and then make the exposure.  I use the X-Ray machine to photograph the internal structures of plant and insect material in order to capture images that reveal the beauty of natural forms usually invisible to the eye.  In a wonderful marriage of science and art, an unseen microcosm emerges from within the complexity of botanical forms.  What is predictable, common and familiar is transformed into a world of newly discovered pleasures.