JUDITH PECK

"Husband and Wife"

The sculptor explains: “My sculpture is inspired by people: how they look, speak and act; how they endure travail and tragedy; how they celebrate joy. Some of my thematic concerns are about the choices people make and the choices made for them by history, by chance, by the intensities of their emotions and experience. These themes often involve individuals and families, and individuals alone in families.

It is an infinite terrain, the landscape of people: dramatic, full of vitality, sometimes painful, frequently funny, but always changing. I too am changed as I wander in these familiar and unfamiliar places with the tools of carving, molding and fabrication in hand.”

Judith Peck’s sculptures are in eighty public and private collections, including The American Art Collection of Yale University; West Palm Beach Florida Library; The Ghetto Fighters Museum in Acco, Israel; The Rockland Center for Holocaust Studies and Temple Beth El in Spring Valley, New York; and in New Jersey: Teaneck Public Library, Ridgewood Train Station and Tenafly High School among others. Judith Peck has a doctoral degree from New York University and two master degrees in sculpture and art education from Teachers College, Columbia university. She is a full professor and the author of several books on the creative processes. Images of her sculptures are seen on her website www.judithpeck.com. Her books are available at www.iapbooks.com.