November, 2008 Featured Artist: Judith Peck
My work has always been about people: how they look and behave; the triumphs they celebrate and the mistakes that horrify them. At one point, I found the monolithic mediums of stone, wood, wax, clay, plastics, found material and steel not quite enough and along came three 400-to-500-page novels and a screenplay. Well, where best to record human joy and travail but in the arts - literature, dance, drama - and as artists we are nurtured by this buffet.
I am honored to be featured on Santa Fe Art World, not least because of my admiration for the quality of work I've seen by its members, and so when asked to reflect on my sculpture - several hundred works carved, modeled, assembled, welded and cast over some fifty years, I made a discovery. I found that the story of women has played a starring role. It was not my intention to make a study of women; every sculpture simply emanated from an idea. I suppose one could say I was intuitively trying to find where as a woman I fit in the vast world beyond my threshold. Yes, men have appeared: in two Holocaust Memorial installations, a 20-foot Moses, a figure of Job, and homeless men - each representing the profound tribulation not of men but Man. But a free-wheeling Cyclist and the male partners of women in love have been joyous in their way.
To see what this world of women looks like - the world according to me (I guess) - I put together a series of images, titled "Special Presentation: A Woman's World." You are invited to double click on the floating figure on the left side of my home page - www.judithpeck.com to start the presentation: and I would surely be delighted to receive your comments.
Judith Peck
Judithpeck@optonline.net
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