if i had a room

I would fill it with wonders like Judy Pfaff.

Judy Pfaff has been a huge inspiration to me. I'm obsessed. Her way of working with materials to create space is magical. I love her craft and attention to detail. If I had a room, a blank studio, I would probably doubt myself. I would assume that paint could be no more than paint and charcoal charcoal. But when I look at Judy Pfaff's work I see the malleability of material and its power to create worlds. Wire and steel, wood and string, paper and glue transform into this familiar yet unexplored place.

Her most recent exhibition was "Paper", held at Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art in New York. This is an excerpt from the press release:

"Previous exhibitions at Ameringer & Yohe, Neither Here nor There and Buckets of Rain, illustrated her command of a wide array of media ranging from wire to neon, from blackened tinfoil to entire tree systems stripped bare of bark, all reinvented for her own creative purpose. In much the same way, Paper rewards us with Pfaff's talent for concoction and repurposing. While it is tempting to term her newest efforts "collage", the word leaves too much out. Judy Pfaff creates worlds with paper Small delicate drawings celebrate unfolding, expansive ideas. Large works (8'x8') wrestle to compress entire Pfaff installations into low relief. The viewer is invited to journey through a myriad of creative suppositions and baroque space"

Here are some images from the show!

The colors and textures are so rich and beautiful and I love the way that everything quietly but poignantly unfolds. Its a sort of gentle explosion. I also especially like the name of the last one, "I dwell in possibility".

"nature does not knock"

"the thing with feathers"

"konya"

"I dwell in possibility"