ArtistJudith Raphael

Judith Raphael has been in many solo and group shows in Chicago and New York and has shown in numerous museums, among them the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the National Academy of Art, New York, the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA and the Palmer Museum, Penn State University. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies by the Djerassi Foundation, Yaddo, the Rockefeller foundation at Bellagio, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation and has received numerous Illinois Arts council grants, an Arts Midwest regional NEA and a painting prizes from the National Academy Museum and the Springfield Art Museum.

Judith Raphael's  "paintings of young girls explore that pivotal cusp, when childhood and adolescent sexuality, sweet innocence and not-so-sweet savvy, tenderness and fierceness are in the balance. In the past she adopted the figural rhetoric of Classical and Renaissance art to show girls in heroic combat. More recently she has derived poses from extreme-sports photos." -  Art in America, Dec, 2003, by Robert Berlind