REMEMBERING LIKE JUDY: STUDYING THE WORK OF JUDY ONOFRIO

USING OUR OWN MEMORYWARE

Found object: any natural or manmade object aesthetically chosen and displayed or incorporated into an artwork

Deconstruct: to investigate and pull apart – in this lesson – act as symbol detective

Outsider art: art created, often not intentionally as art, by one who has no formal or conventional training in art

Grout: a thin mortar or fine plaster used, e.g., for filling the spaces between objects in a mosaic

Armature: framework providing skeletal structure to a sculpture

Memoryware: objects or containers, usually functional, created using bits of personal memorabilia as surface decoration. *In an article by Donna Sapolin (Metropolitan Home 1990) it says … “Throughout the ages – from ancient African funerary vessels assembled from the dead’s beloved objects, to our century’s majestic Watts Towers, a Los Angeles folk monument of crockery, glass and sea shells – ordinary people have found fulfillment in grafting fragments of their lives into sculpture and vessels. It goes by many names: in France, pique assiette ('stolen from plates'); here, bits-and-pieces, or the more memorabilia-laden memoryware.”

Visionary: one who creates mold breaking, forward-thinking art, leading the way to new viewpoints.

Mosaic: technique for surface decoration in which small pieces of glass, ceramic, stone, or other materials are set in a mortar.

Relief: a three-dimensional work of art (height, width and depth) that is not free standing, it is often attached to a wall.

Sculpture: a piece of art that is three dimensional (height, width, depth), free standing, completed on all sides, and meant to be viewed “in the round.”