Sources of Life Oil, on Canvas 33.5''x 41.5''

With the grace and elegance of a sonata, Cherny's abstract oil paintings quietly challenge the audience to think, and listen, to a new and intimate tune. The colors dance off the canvas in a multi-sensory experience. With adventurous precision, Cherny allows color to tell a story, playing with light and lines, giving the effect of stained glass. Though her work is abstract, it is accessible, and though accessible, it is not easy. Her paintings require of the viewer the same attention and openness that the artist transmits to her work. She exposes herself in her paintings, using her entire body to produce her art, and in doing so has created a complex, emotionally engaging body of work.

The scope and breadth of her color palette is vast and delightful. With soft reds and blues, misty greens and browns, the colors of Cherny's multicultural past become the colors of a very present, very sensory experience. Cherny's abstract images have the semblance of greater reality, as if we are being given a glimpse of the artist's view through a filter, through a thick rain and fog. Colors and clues slide down the canvas. Through her paintings, she asks us to use all our senses, to enter into an uncertain world where what we see may seem out of focus, but in turn our scope is open to a multitude of interpretations, and our view is inevitably more diverse.

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Judith in her Studio Judith Barath is an artist of astounding ability. Her work with both traditional and digital artistic media displays the depth and versatility of her incredible talents. What is particularly amazing about her body of work is the quality of emotion that she culls from such disparate elements as flowers and female figures, both creating a meditative realm of calm and beauty.
“The attractive, sensual figures in my work reveal my personal understanding of the connection between man and woman and the continuous, infinite struggle to find harmony in life,” the artist explains.

Influenced early on by the infamous flowers of Van Gogh and the feminine grace of Botticelli’s masterworks, Barath has absorbed these early inspirations to create an original style of expression to share with contemporary audiences. Her works in oil paint are sensual and verdant, as a maze of floral tapestries unfold in front of the viewer, their delicate petals exploding in a frenzy of color. The same sensitivity is applied to Barath's digital works, where she employs powerful programs like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to create a range of stunning effects. The resulting artwork is hypnotic and surreal, employing layer upon layer of imagery that includes airy fabrics, flora and atmospheric conditions and usually features a central female figure or animal. Her figures often seem lost in an existential reverie, expressing joy or anguish through their provocative or enigmatic poses. These women also imbue her work with a strong sense of drama, as if events or memories from outside the picture plane are acting upon the protagonists before our very eyes.
This approach allows viewers to interact with each piece, exploring the visual cornucopia to comprehend the often-illusive themes.

Barath earned her degree from the University of Design and Graphic Arts in Budapest, Hungary. She has worked as an illustrator and designer of children’s books, album covers, movie posters and corporate collateral.
Her artwork has been exhibited in such far-flung cities as London, Buenos Aires, Florence and Los Angeles. Barath resides in Oak Brook, Illinois.

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