Judith Peck is a Washington, D.C., area allegorical figurative artist who paints about current issues using a variety of methods and experimental techniques. This in turn makes it possible for her to achieve quite a diverse range of not only visual, but tactile results.
Allegorical painting might include figures that embody various emotional states of mind – for example, love or fear – or it may personify abstract concepts such as beauty, sight, or freedom. Allegory in art is when the subject of the artwork is used to symbolize a deeper spiritual or moral meaning. Peck paints with oils mostly on boards, which are often embedded with gessoed plaster shards to express this symbolism beautifully.
She has been awarded by the Masur Museum of Art, the Alexandria Museum of Art, The Washington County Museum of Fine Art, The Butler Institute of American Art, the Lore Degenstein Gallery Competition at Susquehanna University, and Florida A&M University’s Pinnacle Competition. Peck has exhibited in Context Art Basel in Miami and The Art Paper Exhibition in New York as well as in major galleries and solo shows. Other highlights of her career include being awarded the Strauss Fellowship Grant in Fairfax County, Virginia, as well as being granted an International Artist-in-Residence in Salzburg, Austria.
Judith Peck’s paintings have been featured numerous times in publications such as American Art Collector Magazine, Poets/Artists, The Artist’s Magazine, iArtisas, Combustus, and the books Ashen Rainbow and Tradition and Transformation. The Georgia Museum of Art published her work in the Kress Project book.
Peck’s renowned work is collected internationally and graces many private and public collections as well as permanent collections of the Museo Arte Contemporanea in Sicilia, the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Pennsylvania, Penn College, Susquehanna University, Montgomery Public Art Trust Contemporary Work on Paper Collection, the Alexandria Commission on the Arts in Virginia, and in the District of Columbia’s Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank.
Judith expresses it best when she writes,
“I look at the things happening in the world today, and what history has taught us about our broken world and I can’t stop being drawn into the unreason of it all.”
She expresses in her art the hopes and dreams that anyone throughout history has felt. She depicts how
“despite our rifts, we might experience healing in a broken world, and how that undertaking is universally human.”
The Garrett Museum of Art is honored to be featuring Judith Peck’s artwork in an exhibition that has been two years in the making.
Join us at the Garrett Museum of Art, located at 100 S. Randolph Street in Garrett, on Friday, June 26, 2020, from 6PM – 8PM to celebrate the opening of our next show featuring artwork by phenomenal Washington D.C. area artist, Judith Peck! On display are figurative, allegorical paintings created by using various experimental methods.
We will have hand sanitizer available in various locations throughout the museum. We will not have snacks and drinks available during the Opening Reception. Please remember to practice social distancing to keep yourself and other guests safe and healthy while viewing the artwork on display.
The Opening Reception is free, open to the public, and all ages are welcome. The show will run from June 26, 2020 through August 2, 2020.