Judith Peck is an American artist (born 1957 in

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) currently residing in the Greater Washington, D.C. area who is predominantly known for her allegorical figurative oil paintings.

Early life and education

Peck was born in 1957 in Brooklyn, New York. She studied art at

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, and received a BFA in 1979.

Artwork

Judith Peck was described by ''Professional Artist'' magazine as an "

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figurative artist who has made her life’s work to paint about history and healing, using a variety of methods and experimental techniques to achieve a diverse range of visual and tactile results that validate a strong narrative." Her paintings have been exhibited nationwide and internationally including at the Alexandria Museum of Art in

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, the

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, the

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, the Koehnline Museum of Art,

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, in

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, the Portsmouth Museum, in

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, CT,

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, and others. Her artwork has also been selected for multiple awards, including the 2019 Best in Show at the Washington County Museum of Art exhibition, the 2018 Phil Desind Award during the Midyear Exhibition at the

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and the 2016 Best in Show award at the Pinnacle Exhibition at

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Foster-Tanner Fine Arts Gallery. She has also been awarded a Strauss Fellowship Grant from

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. Her work has been described as "ethereal portrait paintings" by ''The Washington Post'', and in writing about her work ''Penn State News'' noted that "She portrays the broken yet beautiful human experience in her oil paintings." In highlighting her work in a 1997 five person show at the Platt Gallery in Los Angeles, the

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art critic noted that Peck's works in the show were "the most emotionally charged art here, portraying 'persecuted Jews from the diaspora.' In her paintings, Hebrew characters appear, like an omniscient force, atop portraits of melancholic faces. In 'Last Covenant,' the letters drip blood over the sunken-eyed face of a woman." In 2019, for her most recent show at The Gallery at the

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, she stated that ''"I’m not painting the other, I’m painting everyone and we all live in the world together and we are responsible for everyone, each other..."'' In 2021 she was one of the artists invited to

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's juried invitational, ''

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'' exhibition, a show that was described by

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art critic as forcing "us to remember a time that left us 'confused, battered, and disoriented' through the eyes of 64 D.C.-area artists."

Solo exhibitions

1999 Dadian Gallery,

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, Washington, DC 1999 Swords into Plowshares Gallery,

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2002 Intercultural Museum,

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2010 International Arts and Artists’ Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC 2011 Meyer Metro Gallery, Bellaire, TX 2012 Hoyt Institute for the Arts,

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2013 Gallery 65,

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2015 Chelsea Underground Art Gallery, Chelsea, MI 2017 Hill Center Gallery, Washington, DC 2016 Artists and Makers 2,

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2018 The Gallery at Penn College,

, PA

Awards

Peck is a four-time award winner of the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities purchase awards for the permanent collection of the city of Washington, DC, and also a purchase award from the Alexandria Commission for the Arts for the permanent collection of the city of

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. 2011 Strauss Fellowship Grant from Fairfax County, VA Juror's Choice Award - About Face. Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Art Center, Solomons, MD 2012 Best in Show - In The Flesh III, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA 2013 Juror's Award - Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA 2014 Awarded Brush Creek Residency, Saratoga, WY 2016 Best in Show winner - Pinnacle - Florida A&M University Foster-Tanner Fine Arts Gallery,

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Second Place - Emulsion 2016 - ''East City Art'' - Cataloged - Washington, DC At the Walker exhibition - Cataloged - The Walker Art Collection, Garnett, KS Awarded - International Artist-in-Residence Hallein Kunstinsel Program,

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Second Place - Figurative National Juried Competition, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University,

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2017 Best in Show Award plus Students’ Choice Award - Art Speaks on the Bay, Mathews, VA Second Place Award - Regional Exhibition, Hill Center Gallery, Washington, DC First Place - ''For & About Women'', Frederick Gallery, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts,

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Second Place Award - 30 September International Competition, Alexandria Museum of Art,

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2018 Phil Desind Award - National Midyear Exhibition -

2019 Best in Show - Washington County Museum of Art,

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Publications

''The Ashen Rainbow : Essays on the Arts and the Holocaust'', Ori Z. Soltes, Bartleby Press: Silver Spring, MD Q and A, ''PoetsArtists'' Magazine Feb 2011 Volume 4 Issue 1 Collaboration Issue, ''PoetsArtists'' Magazine issue 3 July 2011 ''Gaze of the Beholder'', ''American Art Collector'' Magazine, December 2011, Issue 74 Featured in the ''Birmingham Arts Journal,'' Volume 9, Issue 1, 2012 Artists and Their Models ''PoetsArtists'' Issue 38 Sept 2012 ''Depth Perception'', ''The Artist’s Magazine,'' October 2012 ''Bourgeon: Fifty Artists Write About Their Work'', Robert Bettmann (Editor) Day Eight (2013) ''Heroes and Villains'' Issue, ''PoetsArtists Magazine'', May 2013 Cover and feature article ''Elan'' Magazine, December 2013 Kress Project, Georgia Museum of Art, 2013, Lynn Boland (author) Feature Article, ''Catapult Magazine'', 2013 Issue 24. ''Cracked and Broken'', ''American Art Collector'' Magazine, Jan. 2014 Issue 99 Interview ''PoetsArtists'' Magazine Issue 52 Feb. 2014 Collaborative project with poet Edward Nudelman, ''PoetsArtists'' Magazine issue 50, 2014 The Portrait Issue ''PA Magazine'' feature, Issue 72 January 2016 ''Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art and Architecture'', Ori Z. Soltes, Canal Street Studios, 2016 ''50 Memorable Painters'', ''PoetsArtists'' Magazine, December 2016 Series Catalogue, Judith Peck, ''PoetsArtists'' Magazine, 2017 ''The Reachable Shore'', ''American Art Collector'' Magazine, Issue 135 Jan 2017 ''Sight Unseen'', ''PoetsArtists Magazine'', Feb. 2017 Issue 81 ''Idiosyncratic Monochromes'' ''PoetsArtists'' Magazine Issue 85, June 2017 ''Hill Rag'' magazine, October 2017 ''50 Great Figurative Artworks,'' ''PoetsArtists'' Magazine #89, Dec. 2017

Permanent collections

Museo Arte Contemporanea,

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City of Washington, DC Pennsylvania College of Technology,

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City of Alexandria, VA

References

External links

Judith Peck Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Peck, Judith Living people Artists from Washington, D.C. Jewish American artists Jewish women artists George Washington University alumni Artists from Virginia Painters from Washington, D.C. Painters from Virginia 21st-century American women painters 21st-century American painters 20th-century American women painters 20th-century American painters 1957 births Artists from Brooklyn