Judith Olson Gregory

Judith Olson Gregory is a visual artist and arts educator based in Western New York and North Carolina. She received a BFA from Alfred University in 1968 and pursued a career in commercial art before turning her attention to her own work full time in 1980.

Gregory’s art often makes use of unusual materials including used tea bags that she dries and brushes with a transparent acrylic medium, and, in individual pieces, dryer lint, Sports Illustrated calendars, and Heimlich Maneuver posters, among other items. Puns figure heavily in the titles and subjects of many of her projects, and she often incorporates text in her pieces.

A native of Jamestown, N.Y. and a summer resident at Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, N.Y., Gregory has exhibited across New York State and the nation, including at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester and Adams Art Gallery in Dunkirk, and has work in public and private collections throughout the region. She has also designed and taught numerous workshops for adults and children, received many awards, and served on the boards of several art organizations in the Rochester area and at Chautauqua Institution, where she was president of the Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts from 1999 to 2001.

For more information on Judith Olson Gregory, visit http://judygregory.com/.