Judy Pfaff: Prints from the Raga Series
Internationally-renowned for over forty years, Judy Pfaff continues to work with her boundless, personal lexicon of organic, decorative and geometric variations in sculpture, drawing and print works. Most readily recognized as a major artist in the field of installation, Pfaff brings her vision into form through works in all media with equal vigor and ground-breaking insight.
Pfaff鈥檚 large-scale, intricately layered prints from the 鈥淩aga鈥� series are simultaneously lush and delicate, created with multiple printmaking techniques such as woodcut and archival ink-jet with applications of colored silver leaf, hand-painted plastic film and hand-applied dyes on Kozo paper. Pfaff鈥檚 series often develop from her lifelong travel adventures, including trips to China and India which inspired the featured work. The Sanskrit word raga - literally coloring or dyeing - is also a structure within classical East Indian music that allows for improvisation. The cross-discipline references are well-suited to Pfaff鈥檚 language as each piece exists within a sophisticated structure and is deeply reliant on the artist鈥檚 singular interpretation of abstraction. The translucent layers within the artist鈥檚 series offer the stratified exposition of time and culture as experienced by this undaunted and highly sensitive artist. The prints deftly convey Pfaff鈥檚 mastery of materiality and exemplify her indominable risk-taking. She describes her work by saying: "I've been involved in making as compact visual structures as I could handle; weaving as many different languages in and out: 2-D, 3-D, architectural, metaphorical, allegorical, literal and abstract." Complex and alive, the breadth of Judy Pfaff鈥檚 visual language continues to inspire and influence each new generation.
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Internationally-renowned for over forty years, Judy Pfaff continues to work with her boundless, personal lexicon of organic, decorative and geometric variations in sculpture, drawing and print works. Most readily recognized as a major artist in the field of installation, Pfaff brings her vision into form through works in all media with equal vigor and ground-breaking insight.
Pfaff鈥檚 large-scale, intricately layered prints from the 鈥淩aga鈥� series are simultaneously lush and delicate, created with multiple printmaking techniques such as woodcut and archival ink-jet with applications of colored silver leaf, hand-painted plastic film and hand-applied dyes on Kozo paper. Pfaff鈥檚 series often develop from her lifelong travel adventures, including trips to China and India which inspired the featured work. The Sanskrit word raga - literally coloring or dyeing - is also a structure within classical East Indian music that allows for improvisation. The cross-discipline references are well-suited to Pfaff鈥檚 language as each piece exists within a sophisticated structure and is deeply reliant on the artist鈥檚 singular interpretation of abstraction. The translucent layers within the artist鈥檚 series offer the stratified exposition of time and culture as experienced by this undaunted and highly sensitive artist. The prints deftly convey Pfaff鈥檚 mastery of materiality and exemplify her indominable risk-taking. She describes her work by saying: "I've been involved in making as compact visual structures as I could handle; weaving as many different languages in and out: 2-D, 3-D, architectural, metaphorical, allegorical, literal and abstract." Complex and alive, the breadth of Judy Pfaff鈥檚 visual language continues to inspire and influence each new generation.
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