bio

Judi Tavill (b. 1968 Baltimore, MD) lives and works in Rumson, NJ. She received her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis, MO (1990) which led to a career as a fashion designer and later shifted to life as a ceramic studio potter and fine craft artist. Her studio ceramic work has been juried and curated into many exhibitions in the United States and can be found in the permanent collection of the Flint Institute of Art Museum.

Completing a Post Baccalaureate at University of Massachusetts- Dartmouth (2021) marked the movement of her creative life into a practice of working with both sculpture and drawing. Tavill accesses the malleable, subtractive and additive qualities of clay speaking to the complications of connection and entanglement. She has been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center (2023), the Virginia Center for Creative Arts(2024) and she has been invited as a guest to the Buffalo Creek Arts Center for month of August 2024 to further explore her sculptural work with ceramics.

Tavill’s abstract biomorphic sculpture, was been chosen for the New Jersey Arts Annual (2022) at the Trenton State Museum and several international juried exhibitions including those held at The Hunterdon Art Museum(Clinton,NJ), The Center for Contemporary Art(Bedminster, NJ) and The Monmouth Museum(Tinton Falls, NJ). She has been showing her most recent body of work throughout the United States and has been highlighted through The Ivy Brown Gallery(NYC, NY), Cavin- Morris Gallery (NYC,NY) and Galerie Lucida(Red Bank, NJ). A solo showings of her work is planned for May of 2024 at the Ivy Brown Gallery(NYC,NY).