Chicks with Balls
If you’d like to find out more about this project and follow it’s path,
please visit my blog to see the paintings and read the story as it unfolds.
chickswithballsjudytakacs.blogspot.com
Signed copies of the original Large Format Chicks with Balls: The Book
are for sale at the BAYarts Gift Shop for $80 and at the
Valley Art Center Bell Street Gift Shop.
The $50 version is available at the Butler Institute of American Art Museum Gift Shop in Youngstown, Ohio.
You can also buy this $50 version of the book at blurb.com
and the larger $80 version at blurb.com.
A few years ago I asked my female friends and family
to take off their tops for me and pose holding a
variety of balls to cover their breasts.
Oddly enough, many of them said yes.
Watch a short video of the whole collection
from when it was exhibited together at
Tri-C Gallery East in November 2015
Judy Takács was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2013.
Chicks with Balls October 2015
Gallery East
Cuyahoga Community College
Highland Hills, Ohio
solo show
October through November 2015
This Exhibition in the spacious galleries of Tri-C Gallery East, showed the complete collection of Chicks paintings that have been created thus far. During the course of the show, many more women volunteered to pose, so this is still only just the beginning!
To keep current on all Chicks activity follow:
From Woman VII
Lakeland College
Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, Ohio
Show ran from March 2nd through March 24th
An invitational group exhibition of woman artists
from the Cleveland area curated by Mary Urbas. Four paintings from my Chicks with Balls series will be shown at this venue.
Lakeland Community College
7700 Clocktower Drive
Kirtland, Ohio
detail from:
Maria speaks the truth
From Woman VII
InTown Club
Intown Club, Cleveland Ohio
Opening Reception:
Monday February 17th
At the historic InTown Ladies Club in the heart of Playhouse Square
from February 5th through March 17th
An intimate invitational group exhibition of woman artists from the Cleveland area curated by Mary Urbas, gallery director at Lakeland Community College.
My painting, “Susie makes it happen” from my
Chicks with Balls series was shown at this venue.
1375 Euclid Ave.
Cleveland, Ohio
Check back to see where Chicks goes next!
Past Chicks Shows
Chicks with Balls
BAYarts in Bay Village, Ohio
solo debut show
Show ran from August 9 through 30, 2013
Also hosted gallery talk and figure painting workshop
This Exhibition kicked off the epic and continuing painting project, Chicks with Balls, and was met with much press and fanfare.
BAYarts
27985 Lake Road
Bay Village, Ohio
detail from:
Karin, more that we can see
detail from:
Susie makes it happen
Chicks with Balls
October 2014
Schulman Gallery
Luzerne County Community College
1333 South Prospect Street
Nanticoke, PA
solo show
October through December 2014
Included a Gallery Talk and a Two day figure painting workshop.
This Exhibition showed new Chicks paintings, along with selected work from the previous collection of my continuing painting project, Chicks with Balls.
