« Née aux Etats-Unis, héritière de l'expressionnisme de De Kooning et Sam Francis, puis de celui de Schiele et de Kokoschka (dont elle fut l'élève), Judith Wolfe est installée en France depuis quarante ans, au terme d'un itinéraire « Judith Wolfe studied with the painter John Ferren at Queens College in New York and later with Oskar Kokoschka in Salzburg, before settling in Paris in 1966. The girl student, who had trained as a dancer at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School, moved on to womanhood as a painter. What we see today as a mature balance between space and content in her powerful gesture, was initially influenced by the European expressionists. She pursued this, growing in her distinct use of strong color and expressive brushwork on canvas and in prints. Then in 1976, greatly impressed by Matisse's monumental collages, Wolfe began a series of large-scale works on paper. After mastering painting on paper, tearing, cutting, layering it to achieve a final structure, she now compliments and juxtaposes these primary blues, reds, and yellows with the whites of the paper and black ink drawings. We feel a physicality as whites are often gauged, punctured or left quietly and black Chinese ink flows. In the late '90s, phrases and bits of poems slipped in from her past, confronting the present with intriguing messages. Wolfe's recent works reflect her concern for growing alienation in an unstable and rapidly changing environment. Ouverture de l'espace de Bourron-Marlotte sur rendez-vous à votre convenance Galerie Caron Bedout - 16 rue Armand Charnay - 77780 Bourron-Marlotte www.galeriecaronbedout.com Galerie en ligne /plus de 60 œuvres référencées : http://fr.artprice.com/store/GALERIE-CARON-BEDOUT |