[Image: By Gerry Judah]. Artist Gerry Judah's paintings are massively and aggressively three-dimensional, piling up, away, and out from the canvas to form linked cities, ruins, and debris-encrusted bridges, like reefs.
[Images: By Gerry Judah]. They are perhaps what a tectonic collaboration between Lebbeus Woods and Jackson Pollock might produce: blasted and collapsing landscapes so covered in white it's as if nuclear winter has set in.
[Image: By Gerry Judah]. As the short film included below makes clear, Judah embeds entire architectural models in each piece, affixing small constellations of buildings to the canvas before beginning a kind of archaeological onslaught: layering paint on top of paint, raining strata down for days to seal the landscape in place and make it ready for wall-mounting.
And then the paintings go up, sprawling and counter-gravitational, like ruins tattooed on the walls.
[Image: By Gerry Judah]. For more work—including pieces executed in red and black—see Judah's website (including his bio, which suggests larger architectural and theatrical influences).
(Thanks to Jim Rossignol for the tip!)
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