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| JUDY PFAFF |
Judy Pfaff was born in London in 1946 and later moved to Detroit. Pfaff received her undergraduate degree from Southern Illinois University and Washington University. She was then accepted, as an abstract painter, into the arts graduate program at Yale University in 1971 where she worked with installation art during her first year. Pfaff received an M.F.A. in 1973 and moved to New York. Pfaff has exhibited in New York and abroad for over 10 years. Pfaff, during the late '70s, worked within the trend of installation art. She could be described as a counter-Minimalist as her creations resemble extremely colorful explosions, teaming with a diverse assemblage of objects and shapes. Most of her large three-dimensional installation pieces do not outlast the exhibit due to their complexity and fragility (her works were usually assembled on the spot). Pfaff is the seventh artist to participate in the Crown Point Press Japanese Program. She spent two weeks in Kyoto, Japan working with traditional craftsmen to produce work in the Ukiyo-e tradition. Pfaff prepared a drawing, which was actually a three-dimensional collage, to be sent over to Japan where the craftsmen carved the wood blocks as proofs. She then joined them in Kyoto and worked with the printer, Tadashi Toda, until the work was perfect. Returning home, Pfaff continued to work the proofs which she had brought back with her. Tadashi Toda printed 170 impressions of the original work. Hidekatsu Takada printed half that number with a cross-section of a tree which Pfaff had found in her studio and the remaining half with red and black lines (the print seen here) which had been printed from blocks carved in Japan. The title, Yoyogi , is the name of a park in Tokyo which serves as the teenage hang-out. |
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