Judy Pfaff is an artist from Tivoli, New York. She got her BFA from Washington University in Saint Louis in 1971, and then earned her MFA from Yale in 1973. Her work incorporates both 2D and 3D elements to create otherworldly installations. Like collage, she carefully places each element to make a sort of organized chaos. Her work is symbolic due to many elements of her work being discarded after exhibitions, much like mandalas which are seen as temporary objects. Though her work doesn’t seem to directly pull from religious imagery, she does compare it to that of a cathedral in contradiction to the concept of mandalas. Her installations have been displayed in many major museums, and she has permanent works in the Tate Modern, MoMA, The Whitney, and many more prestigious institutions.
examples
from her Quartet series (2018)
GU CHOKI PA (1985)
LA CIUDAD DE LOS ANGELES (1977)
drawing into space 