Judy Pfaff "Buckets of Rain" detail 4

"Buckets of Rain" detail 4, Judy Pfaff

Judy Pfaff is known as a pioneer of installation art from the 1970s. She combines sculpture, painting, two and three dimensional collage and architecture into dynamic environments in which space seems to expand and collapse. Her works are like abstract landscapes with architectural elements, and dramatic color schemes, together wrapped up simultaneously into a tense and placid whole that consume huge gallery spaces. Pfaff’s site-specific installations penetrate walls and seem to have a life of their own as they sometimes explode through the air, achieving lightness, movement, energy and a strange stillness. She uses steel, fiberglass, and plaster as well as salvaged signage and natural elements such as tree roots. She also has an interest in natural motifs and has created a series of prints which use vegetation, maps, and medical illustrations. Ms. Pfaff has expanded her sculptural work into set designs for several theatrical stage productions as well.