Quick to discern the features of physical nature, Judy Munro creates expressionist studies and landscapes with a painterly touch and a keen eye for staging. “Summer trips, bracketed with endless fluid roadside montages” are the childhood remnants that influence her work.The open space and atmosphere of her landscapes are infused with a restorative vivacity, roads suggest a journey from somewhere, and tree-lined avenues offer a further destination into woods or fields. Working more swiftly than in her figure paintings, Munro lays down her paints alla prima, blocking out her compositions, contrasting sculptural and flat areas. Her landscapes vary from vivid naturalism to embellished color and pattern. Within tree-filled spaces, trunks run from the bottom to the top of the canvases, providing both structure and spatial complexity.Judy Munro has been painting as far back as she can remember. After graduating from Cass Technical High School, she went on to attend Pratt Institute in New York, and later returned home to complete a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Wayne State University in Detroit.Judy Munro’s paintings, direct and intuitive, are bold, rich and beautifully textured explorations of the emotive qualities of color and light. Her landscapes and cityscapes, at first glance based in impressionism, incorporate an expressionistic edge that often moves into abstraction. The result is an astonishingly varied body of work that skillfully blends the viewpoints of all three genres.