Judy Pfaff

Judy Pfaff, born 1946 in London, England, is an American artist , known mainly for Installation art [http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/pfaff/index.html] . Pfaff has received numerous awards for her work, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award (2004) and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1983) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1986). Major exhibitions have been held of her work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2002), Denver Art Museum (1994) and Saint Louis Art Museum (1989).

Pfaff moved to the United States at the age of thirteen. She did her undergraduate work at Washington University and received her Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University [http://www.tandempress.wisc.edu/tandem/gallery/pfaff/pfaff.htm] .

Pfaff creates paintings, sculpture, prints, and installation art. Of the creation of her work, she says "I’ve always done prints and drawings, always. No one buys those installations, so when you see things that are portable that I’m not attached to, they’re probably two-dimensional. If you get an installation of mine, you inherit [my assistant] Ryan, myself, a crew, the dog, the noise, the dirt. We wreck the house. So if you don’t want that, then you get prints and drawings." [http://www.chronogram.com/issue/2007/3/Arts+&+Culture/Portfolio-Judy-Pfaff] Her installation art has been compared to that of "a collagist in space." [http://www.sunyulster.edu/campus_life/community_activities/visiting_artist_program/pfaff_judy.jsp] .Roberta Smith, critic for The New York Times, said that Pfaff's work was "exhilarating" and "elaborately impure." Benjamin Genocchio, another "New York Times" critic, said that "she seems somehow to get order and disorder working for her at the same time." [http://www.magical-secrets.com/artists/pfaff] . She has also done Scenic design. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_8_93/ai_n15379622]

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External links

* [http://www.judypfaff.org/ Pfaff's website]
* [http://www.ameringer-yohe.com/?a=40 Pfaff's work at Ameringer-Yohe Gallery]
* [http://www.crownpoint.com/artists/182/biography Timeline of Pfaff's career]