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Pfaff Prints
Year of the Dog #9
Ukbar, Ucbar, Ooqbar...
Nymphaea
The Mirror |
Judy Pfaff was born in London in 1946 and later
settled in America at the age of thirteen. She received her B.F.A.
from Washington University and her M.F.A. from Yale University. Her
innovative work has brought her wide acclaim from galleries and museums
throughout the United States, Europe, and the Far East. Her work can
be found in such prestigious collections as the Detroit Institute of Art;
The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
In a series of long horizontal prints,
Judy first executed highly
detailed plates composed of circles and concentric circles, inscribed
lines, and outlines of hands in muted sepia and gray/green tones.
Like her large- scale installations these prints have a three-dimensional
presence and flowing quality with multiple circles and lines echoing
throughout each image. To bring the overall compositions together
each print is finished with hand applied encaustic paint and fabric
dyes. In several of the prints Judy uses imagery from Indian
Sanskrit ledger books and stenciling from computer laser shapes
of plants from scientific journals. |
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