Background
Judi Harvest was born in Miami, Florida, United States.
2017
Judi Harvest with Monumental Hive. Photo by Francesco Allegretto.
2018
Judi Harvest visiting the Angela Mitchell presentation at New York Fashion Week. Photo by Yuchen Liao.
2018
(From left to right) Designer Krystal Lavoie, Judi Harvest, designer Marilyn Lavoie, Danielle Staub, and a guest during the Angela Mitchell presentation at New York Fashion Week. Photo by Yuchen Liao.
2018
9 Clinton St, New York, NY 10002, United States
Judi Harvest with Allison Barker (center) visiting Pioneering Artist Bettina Werner's Exhibition at ABXY Gallery in New York City. Photo by Gonzalo Marroquin.
2018
9 Clinton St, New York, NY 10002, United States
Judi Harvest visiting Pioneering Artist Bettina Werner's Exhibition at ABXY Gallery in New York City. Photo by Gonzalo Marroquin.
The Tyler School of Art and Architecture of Temple University in Rome which Judi Harvest attended in 1973.
11300 NE 2nd Ave, Miami Shores, FL 33161, United States
Barry University where Judi Harvest obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974.
215 W 57th St, New York, NY 10019, United States
The Art Students League of New York where Judi Harvest studied from 1982 to 1984.
8 W 8th St, New York, NY 10011, United States
The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture where Judi Harvest studied from 1985 to 1987.
Via dei Maceri, 2, 61029 Urbino PU, Italy
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino (School of Visual Arts at Urbino) where Judi Harvest obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1987.
Judi Harvest with one of her sculptures.
Judi Harvest among her works. Photo by Chiaki Kato.
Judi Harvest with one of her sculptures. Photo by Chiaki Kato.
Judi Harvest at work. Photo by Chiaki Kato.
Judi Harvest. Photo by Chiaki Kato.
Judi Harvest. Photo by Chiaki Kato.
285 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL 33134, United States
Judi Harvest with a collector Jane Hurt at the Coral Gables Museum opening of her artwork Cross-Pollination: Honeybees and Murano Glass.
Judi Harvest
Murano Honey Garden initiated and maintained by Judi Harvest.
Judi Harvest in her Murano Honey Garden on the Island of Sacca Serenella, Murano, Italy. Photo by Claudio Franzini.
The hives of Murano Honey Garden initiated and maintained by Judi Harvest.
Murano Honey Garden initiated and maintained by Judi Harvest.
artist painter sculptor beekeeper
Judi Harvest was born in Miami, Florida, United States.
Judi Harvest spent her childhood in Miami, Florida. Growing up among gardens, she developed a passion for nature since her early years.
In 1973, Harvest attended the Tyler School of Art and Architecture of Temple University in Rome. A year later, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from Barry University.
From 1982 to 1984, she followed art classes at the Art Students League of New York City where Richard Pousette-Dart, Robert Beauchamp, and Rudolph Baranik were among her teachers.
For a couple of following years, she studied art under Robert Storr, Esteban Vincente, and Ross Bleckner at the New York Studio School. In 1987, Judi Harvest obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in Urbino (Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino), Italy.
Judi Harvest began her career in real estate in 1980. By 1993, she became an authorized real estate broker.
At the end of the 1980s, she started exhibiting as a professional artist. Since then, Harvest has successfully combined these two activities applying her visual expertise and creativity into the real estate business.
Harvest's sculptures inspired by honeybees and other animated forms of life like tomatoes, pomegranates, and wheat are primarily made from Murano glass with a help of three old techniques, cera persa (lost wax), lume (flame work), and soffiato (blown), molten glass. The Murano glass is often accompanied by gold leaf. Harvest also uses Chicken wire, air drying porcelain, beeswax, and resin for her works.
Since 1987, Judi Harvest has regularly demonstrated her artworks around the United States and Europe, including 6 International Venice Biennales to date. She has exhibited in such art galleries and museums as Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, Jonathan Shorr Gallery, New York City, Akademie of Fine Arts in Prague, Galerie Thomas in Munich, IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern in Spain, Palazzo Tiepolo Passi in Venice, Venice Design Art Gallery, Hotel Bauer, Zeitgeist Gallery in Milan, Fondation Valmont in Barcelona, The Coral Gables Museum in Miami and the Murano Glass Museum, Venice among others.
In 2013, after coming across the news about Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), the worldwide disappearance of Honey bees, she used an abandoned field behind Murano Glass Master Giorgio Giuman's glass factory, Sacca Serenella island, Italy where she had worked for a long time to found a Murano Honey Garden. There are several beehives on its territory with colonies of bees that produce about 60 kilos of honey twice a year. To maintain the garden, the honey is sold in jars accompanied by Harvest's Honey Vessel sculptures.
Judi Harvest has taken part in many international conferences and lectures dedicated to art, honeybees, the environment, and the state of Murano Glass.
Nowadays, Judi Harvest shares her time between New York City and Venice, Italy.
Pomegranate 4 (Abundance Series)
Honey Vessel
Frozen Honeycomb
Homage à Matisse
Stromboli Vase
Acqua Alta
Rhinos
Mappomondo
White Collar
Bears
Fragmented Peace
Moonik Martians
Disco Hive
Monumental Hive
Glowing Hive
Drone Baby and Worker Bee Baby on Honey
Alveare Verde
Murano Glass Flower Chain
Miele
Radicchio
Honey Moon
Balena / Whale
Through her artworks, Judi Harvest touches such eternal topics as the Fragility of Life and the Search for Beauty.
Quotations:
"Art is to be lived with and enjoyed and makes a house a much more interesting home."
"For me, art and real estate have a lot in common – they are both involved with light, space, feeling and investment. Real Estate is an art and a science."
"I grew up with a garden that taught me to enjoy and respect the earth ...Like honeybees we have within us the patterns that will allow us to reshape the world we live in..."
"My work has always developed out of real life experiences inspired by ways in which art brings positive energy and awareness."
Judi Harvest started to collaborate with New York City Beekeepers Association in the early 2010s. She supports financially Bees Without Borders foundation as well.
Judi Harvest speaks English and Italian languages.
Quotes from others about the person
"Not all artists are created equal, and not all artists are equally creative. Judi Harvest has made creativity in both life and art her goal and achievement." Barbara Rose, art historian