J G Orudjev

About the Artist

J G Orudjev is a collage and mixed media artist living in Frederick MD. Her work has appeared in print both domestically and internationally, has been selected by jury to show in galleries throughout the United States, and is part of several private collections.  She is a member at NOMA gallery, Frederick MD, an artist managed cooperative. There she serves as gallery manager and new member coordinator. She also works as an artistic and curatorial consultant to a regionally recognized framer and gallerist.

Artist's Statement

Collage as a medium is fundamentally reflective of the ways we construct narrative from association— the strata of image and context that provide the basis for our private archetypes, our shared visual language. My work in collage, while abstract and seemingly esoteric, is narrative in nature. Storytelling is the means by which we understand ourselves, human experience, and universes both private and profound— the familiar unfamiliar that exists within us all. ”The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” — Muriel Rukeyser, The Speed of Darkness