Judith Seligson

About Judith Seligson

Judith Seligson is a painter and writer living in Alexandria, Virginia and New York City. She received a B.A. with honors from Harvard University (’72), where she majored in Economics. She also studied with painter Flora Natapoff and served as her teaching assistant. She audited Philip Guston’s graduate seminar at Boston University. In 1975, she received a scholarship to the Provincetown Workshop, where she studied with Leo Manso and Victor Candell. Ms. Seligson has had several solo exhibitions at the Jane Haslem Gallery in Washington, DC and Anita Friedman Fine Arts in New York City. She had a one-person show at the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute in 1997, and the Issey Miyake boutique on Madison Avenue during Fashion Meets Art in 2004. She has shown at Gary Snyder Fine Arts, NYC and the Art in Embassies Program. Ms. Seligson is known for several bodies of work: hard-edged oil paintings, text-based collages and digital prints, pastels on photographs, her articles, and her talks about her text drawings. She is known, too, for her twenty-year GAP project. Her book, The Gap: A Portrait of the Space Between Things, will be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in late 2019. She has given talks at the International Henry James Society Conference and the American Literature Association.

Experience

1. Publication of Gaps and the Creation of Ideas an Artist\'s Book

   Cambridge Scholars Publishing

   Mar 2000 — Present · Newcastle upon Tyne, GB

   Gaps and the Creation of Ideas: An Artist’s Book is a portrait of the space between things, whether they be neurons, quotations, comic-book frames, or fragments in a collage. This twenty-year project is an artist’s book that juxtaposes quotations and images from hundreds of artists and writers with Ms. Seligson’s thoughts. Using Adobe InDesign for composition and layout, she has structured the book to show analogies among disparate texts and images. There have always been gaps, but a focus on the space between things is virtually synonymous with modernity. Often characterized as a break, modernity is a story of gaps. Around 1900 many independent strands of gap thought and experience interacted and interwove more intricately. Atoms, textiles, theories, women, Jews, collage, poetry, patchwork, and music figure prominently in these strands. The gap is a ubiquitous phenomenon appearing in neuroscience, rabbinic thinking, modern literary criticism, art, popular culture, and the structure of matter. This book explores many subjects, but it is ultimately a work of art.

Education

• Harvard University

  A.B., Economics, Painting

  1968 — 1972