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 curated into many exhibitions in the United States and can be found in the permanent collection of the Flint Institute of Art Museum as well as private collections in the US and abroad..

Completing a Post Baccalaureate at University of Massachusetts- Dartmouth (2021) marked the movement of her art practice to working with both sculpture and drawing. Tavill’s focus explores line and form and form as line and she enjoys engaging with the malleable, subtractive and additive qualities of clay as she speaks to the complications of connection and entanglement. She has been awarded residencies at Buffalo Creek Art Center and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts(2024) and Vermont Studio Center (2023).

Tavill’s art has been curated into many regional and international exhibitions including  “New Sculpture/ New Jersey” at the Morris Museum in Morristown, N.J., “2024 International Juried Exhibition”, at the Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster, N.J., “New Jersey Arts Annual” at the Montclair Art Museum(2024) and the Trenton State Art Museum (2022), “Clay Bash” at the Hunterdon Art Museum (2023) and she was selected as an Art Fair 14C Showcase Artist (2022). Tavill’s work has been curated into various exhibitions throughout the United States including small group showings at Cavin-Morris Gallery (NYC, NY), Galerie Lucida (Red Bank, NJ), Court Tree Collective(Brooklyn, NY) and solo exhibitions at Ivy Brown Gallery (NYC, NY), ADAMAH Gallery(Columbus ,Ohio ) and a forthcoming exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Art(Bedminster, NJ).