Judy Pfaff, Quartet 5, Digital image on MDF, wire, aluminum discs, acrylic, melted plastic, paper lantern, framed works (oil stick and encaustic on paper), 2018
Artist/Maker:
Judy Pfaff
Bio:
American, b. England, 1946
Title:
Quartet 5
Portfolio/Series:
Quartet Series
Date:
2018
Medium:
Digital image on MDF, wire, aluminum discs, acrylic, melted plastic, paper lantern, framed works (oil stick and encaustic on paper)
Dimensions:
101 1/2 × 120 1/2 × 24 in. (257.8 × 306.1 × 61 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation
Accession Number:
2022-68a-l

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Judy Pfaff, by her own admission, likes “anything that combusts.” Since the late 1970s, she has created teeming installations that threaten to explode out of the galleries that contain them. This wall-based work, pulsating with colorful concentric circles, has a similar centripetal energy. Some elements of Quartet 5 are sculpted or painted by the artist; others, such as the folded paper hats in the lower right corner of the composition, are found objects that she manipulates and arranges. Set against a backdrop that includes floral wallpaper, Quartet 5 channels the wild fecundity of nature itself, ebulliently incorporating organic and synthetic elements alike.

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