Judy Pfaff, installation view Boa(1982), University Museum of Contemporary Art,
University of Massachustts Amherst. Photography: Creative Services Umass
| | Looking Forward/Looking Back
In Conversation: Judy Pfaff and Helaine Posner
Thursday, February 16, 2006 5:30 pm
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
Judy Pfaff is an artist whose achievements defy stylistic categorization. Since the 1970s Pfaff has mingled drawing, painting, and sculpture and has explored how to make painting more three-dimensional and sculpture more painterly. From the beginning of her career in the 1970s, she has worked with a wide and unusual range of materials and has inspired younger artists to venture outside the traditional distinctions made between painting and sculpture.
In 1982 Judy Pfaff's dynamic, exuberant site-specific installation Boa at the University Museum of Contemporary Art filled every inch of available space with color, line, shapes and texture. During that decade she gained international prominence and has since mounted more than 100 solo exhibitions and installations and participated in more than 200 group exhibitions. Her work appears in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2004 Pfaff was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellowship.
Helaine Posner, Director of the University Museum of Contemporary Art from 1984 to 1988, was Curator of the List Visual Art Center at MIT from 1991 to 1998, and is currently adjunct curator at the American Federation of Arts in New York.
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