JUDY PFAFF | Prints

Internationally renowned for over forty years, American icon Judy Pfaff continues to work with her boundless, personal lexicon of organic, decorative and geometric variations in sculpture, drawing and print works. Most readily recognized as a major artist in the field of installation, Pfaff brings her vision into form through works in all media with equal vigor and ground-breaking insight. The exhibited photogravure works, a process that uses a photograph to etch an image into a plate for printmaking, demonstrate Pfaff’s innovative work on paper approach by unexpectedly adding surface elements or hole punching to expand the imagery of, in this case, chandeliers. She describes her entire body of work by saying: "I've been involved in making as compact visual structures as I could handle; weaving as many different languages in and out: 2-D, 3-D, architectural, metaphorical, allegorical, literal and abstract." Complex and alive, the breadth of Judy Pfaff’s visual language continues to inspire and influence each new generation.

London-born artist Judy Pfaff received an M.F.A. from Yale University, a B.F.A. from Washington University, St. Louis, and an honorary Doctorate from Pratt Institute. She has been the recipient of some of the highest honors in her field including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Art Grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, International Sculpture Center Lifetime Achievement Award, Anonymous Was A Woman Award, National Academy Award for Excellence in Sculpture, a Hirshorn New York Gala Honoree, Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Fellowship, Nancy Graves Foundation Grant, the Dean’s Medal from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Southern Graphics Council International Conference Lifetime Achievement Award, and is a member of the American Academy of Art and Letters, NY. Pfaff was invited into the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial in 1975. In 1998, she was selected as the US representative to the Bienal de São Paulo. Her work is included in prestigious public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, The National Academy of Design, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art, Albright-Knox Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Denver Art Museum, High Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Art, Elvehjem Museum, Madison, WI, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Sun Hwa Art and Culture Foundation, Seoul, Korea and the Sammlung Ludwig, in Aachen, Germany, among many others. Pfaff has exhibited extensively in both the U.S. and abroad including solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; the P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, NY; and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; among many others.