Artist: Judith K. Brodsky
Title: Einstein's Universe
Description: The fan-shaped black area is a segment of the universe.
The galaxies are embossed in the black paper. The horizontal line brackets the section
of the universe most densely occupied by galaxies. The rectangle at the bottom brackets the
area of the universe in which our galaxy is found.
Medium: Handmade paper, embossing, collage, glitter
Size: 24" x 24"

On display at Princeton Ustore

Biography:

Judith K. Brodsky is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Department of Visual Arts at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She is the Founding Director of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, renamed the Brodsky Center in her honor in September, 2006. The Brodsky Center will have its 25th Anniversary exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2012. Brodsky is the co-founder and co-director, with Dr. Ferris Olin, of the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art, a member institute of the Institute for Women's Leadership at Rutgers. She and Olin are the facilitators of The Feminist Art Project, a national program to promote understanding of the role of women artists in the cultural milieu, and are Co-Principal Investigators and Co-Directors of WAAND (Women Artists Archives National Directory).

Brodsky is the chair of Philagrafika 2010, a citywide international visual arts festival focusing on the printed image. She is a past national president of ArtTable, the College Art Association, and the Women's Caucus for Art. She is a former dean and former associate provost at Rutgers University as well as former chair of the art department at the Rutgers campus at Newark.

Brodsky has organized and curated many exhibitions and written extensively about women and prints. She was a contributor to the first comprehensive history of the American women's movement in art, called The Power of Feminist Art. An exhibition she organized and curated called 100 New Jersey Artists Make Prints, recently traveled throughout the United States as well as to Middle East, and Africa venues. Brodsky with Olin recently curated the exhibitions How American Women Artists Invented Postmodernism and Eccentric Bodies, both under the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, of which they are co-curators. Very active in policy-making positions in the art world, Brodsky presently serves on the boards of ArtPride/New Jersey, Jersey City Museum, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the International Print Center New York.

A printmaker and artist in her own right, Brodsky's work is in the permanent collections of over 100 museums and corporations such as The Library of Congress; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The Stadtsmuseum, Berlin; the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California at Los Angeles; the Rhode Island School of Design Museum; the New Jersey State Museum; and the Fogg Museum at Harvard. She has a Master of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University where she majored in art history.

In her own prints and drawings, Brodsky works with an early 21st century iconography, reflecting the intellectual, political, and social issues of our time as filtered through her own individuality. Her images of the environment, women, and family become metaphors for her feelings about life, decay, death, and possible salvation.