Opening Reception: Judith Roderick: The Crane

Placitas Wild Hearts Gallery presents Judith Roderick’s exhibition, The Crane. This exhibition is a tribute to the crane, both the Sandhills and the endangered Whooping Crane, featuring silk art quilts, watercolors and a newly revised book of poems and artwork depicting their grace and beauty. These ancient, iconic, symbolic birds, who fly into our Rio Grande Valley each winter, have been revered by a myriad of cultures worldwide for thousands of years as symbols of peace, hope, longevity, fidelity, and as messengers between Heaven and Earth.

Judith was a painting and design major in college and has been painting the beauty and diversity of our world ever since. Her quilting work is unique – she begins by painting on silk and then creates quilts from her original paintings and from prints of her work.

Judith says: “Need upliftment for the New Year? May this show and book provide inspiration and food for thought, and inspire you to go observe them, up and down our valley, at the Bernardo wildlife area at Bosque del Apache. Long have they flown, since the age of the dinosaurs, long may they fly!”