May 2011 Featured Artist: Judith Peck
Judith Peck is pleased to announce that she has received an invitation from the Stamford, Connecticut Art in Public Places Commission to exhibit six (6) large outdoor sculptures for this summerís Stamford Downtown Arts Festival.
Pictured are three of the outdoor sculptures to be transported by a Mayflower van to go on display. The Stamford Downtown art exhibit is titled ìWit and Whimsy. The sculptures will be placed along with others in various locations around the City. Judith says, ìSo if you happen to be in the Town from June 8th through Labor Day, stop by. I'm told there will be a lot going on.
ëTo see other works large and small and in between, I invite you to visit www.judithpeck.com and I would love to hear from you as well.
Capsule Bio
Judith Peck's sculptures are in approximately eighty public and private collections, including the American Art Collection of the Yale University Gallery; the Ghetto Fighters Museum in Israel; West Palm Beach Florida Library; Teaneck, New Jersey Public Library; Tenafly New Jersey High School; the Ridgewood, New Jersey Train Station and cultural and religious institutions in New York, Maryland and Israel.
Her work has been exhibited at the International Biennial of Art in Malta, the National Academy Galleries in New York, the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Pennsylvania Academy; the Detroit Institute; the New Jersey State Museum and at numerous universities including Yale, Columbia, Fordham, Adelphi, Montclair, and Rutgers. Images of her sculptures in bronze, carvings in stone and wood, and large work in mixed media can be seen at www.judithpeck.com.
Peck was invited Featured Artist for the November, 2008 international on-line publication, Santa Fe Art World; her sculptures, Ladies of Steel, were on display at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in New York, one of which was included in the United Nations publication, ìCenterpoint Now.î Recently, a major exhibition of sixteen large sculptures was installed on the Robert Moses Plaza of Fordham University, Lincoln Center in New York. Several large works are currently on view in the Art Park at Clifton City Hall and The Leonia Sculpture Garden in New Jersey.
Invited commission proposals include, among others, models for the Rutgers Law Library, Camden, NJ; New City Jail, NY; Somerset Financial Center, NJ; North Palm Beach Library, FL; the Teaneck Centennial; and the Saddle River Millennium, NJ.
Judith Peck is full professor of Art at Ramapo College of New Jersey in Mahwah. She is author of the text, Sculpture as Experience: Working with Clay, Wire, Wax, Plaster, and Found Objects (Chilton); Leap to the Sun: Learning through Dynamic Play (Prentice-Hall); Art & Interaction (Ramapo College of New Jersey); Art Activities for Mind and Imagination, and Artistic Crafts (Imagination Arts Publications); Sculpture as Experience 2nd Edition (Krause) and two childrenís picture books. Descriptions and secure ordering procedures for these books are found at www.iapbooks.com.
Peck is referenced in Who's Who in American Art, the World's Who's Who of Women, and the Smithsonian Institute's publication, "Designing Public Art," published in conjunction with The National Museum of American Art.
Judith holds a doctoral degree from New York University and two master degrees in sculpture and art education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
"Judith Peck sculpts at the wind wills - from carefully wrought beauty to wayward mischief."
The Record, New Jersey
ìJudith Peckís sculptures assert a dynamic and uplifting human presence, posed against midtownís soaring glass towers.
Gallery & Studio, New York
Peck's sculpture communicates peace, tranquility, danger, violence, sensualityÖIn her sheet-thin drawings in welded steel of human figures, as in her seated and reclining womenÖ.the grace and dance of the curves recall Matisseís drawings where line carries the weight, inner volume and strength.
Dr. Vivienne Thaul Wechter, former Curator of Exhibitions, Fordham University
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