Judy Pfaff in collaboration with Michael David
Running from October 2024 through March 2025, this six-month program offers a unique opportunity for four selected artists to engage in thoughtful dialogue, critical feedback, and sustained mentorship. The salon will include four group meetings—two in the first month, where artists present in pairs, followed by full presentations by all four artists in both January and March. Judy and Michael will attend every session, offering insights and guidance throughout. In addition, each artist will receive three private one-hour studio visits with Judy and Michael throughout the program. Symposia! is designed to foster deep artistic growth in a supportive and rigorous environment, and we look forward to another season of discovery and exchange.
Judy Pfaff & Michael David Cohorts
Lesley Bodzy
Roxy Savage
Kathryn Hart
Francesca Schwartz
Judy Pfaff: Cited by critics as the pioneer of installation-art, this oft-cited label for the sprawling career of Judy Pfaff provides an introductory sense of Pfaff’s legacy, but proves limiting to the ever-changing work she has been making for decades and still today. Born in London in 1946, Pfaff received a BFA from Washington University Saint Louis (1971), and an MFA from Yale University (1973) where she studied with Al Held. Her work spans across disciplines from painting to printmaking to sculpture to installation, but is perhaps best described as painting in space. These spatial paintings inhabit and transform their environments, becoming ad hoc homes for viewers and the artist. She exhibited work in the Whitney Biennials of 1975, 1981, and 1987, and represented the United States in the 1998 Sao Paulo Bienal. Her pieces reside in the permanent collections of MOMA, Whitney Museum of Art, Tate Gallery, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Detroit Institute of Arts, among others. She is the recipient of many awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center (2014), the MacArthur Foundation Award (2004), and the Guggenhiem Fellowship (1983). Pfaff lives and works in Tivoli, New York.
Deirdre Fox
