Judith Shea | |
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 Judith Shea, Without Words (1988), Minneapolis Sculpture Garden | |
| Born | 1948 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Alma mater | Parsons School of Design |
| Known for | Fashion design |
| Patron(s) | 16 |
Judith Shea is an American sculptor and artist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1948. She was awarded a degree in fashion design from the Parsons School of Design in 1969 and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree there in 1975. This dual education formed the basis for her figure based works.[1][2]
Her career has had three distinct phases: the use of cloth and clothing forms from 1974 to 1981; the use of hollow cast metal clothing-figure forms from 1982 until 1991; and the creation of carved full-figure statues made of wood, cloth, clay, foam and hair from 1990 to the present.[3][4][5]
- ^ "For them, clothing is art." Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: The Times Leader, March, 1, 1984, Fashion Section, p. D1 (subscription required).
- ^ Plagens, Peter. "Works by Judith Shea, Blane De St. Croix and Others." New York, New York: The Wall Street Journal, May 23, 2014 (subscription required).
- ^ Seltzer, Ruth. "'Vested' interests." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 16, 1980, Society Section, p. D2 (subscription required).
- ^ "Walker Adds Works." Hazleton, Pennsylvania: Standard-Speaker, July 18, 1984, p. 30 (subscription required).
- ^ Sozanski, Edward. "Minimalist sculptures and sensitive drawings." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 13, 1986, Arts Section, p. C5 (subscription required).