Judith Schaechter
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| birth_date = 1961
| birth_place = Gainesville, Florida, U S.
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| nationality = American
| field = Stained glass
| training = B.F.A. in Glass, Rhode Island School of Design, 1983
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| website = [http://www.judithschaechter.com/ judithschaecter.com]
| awards = Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
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Judith Schaechter (born 1961, Gainesville, Florida) is a Philadelphia-based artist known for her work in the medium of stained glass.{{cite web|url=http://www.missioncreep.com/schaechter/ |title=Parables in Glass: Stained Glass Artwork by Judith Schaechter |publisher=Missioncreep.com |access-date=2016-03-03}} Her pieces often use symbolism from stained glass and Gothic traditions, but the distorted faces and figures in her work recall a 20th century German Expressionist painting style{{Cite book|title=Collecting contemporary glass : art and design after 1990 from the Corning Museum of Glass|last=Tina|first=Oldknow|year=2014|isbn=9780872902015|location=Corning, New York|pages=196, 275|oclc=905092870}} and her subject matter is secular.{{Cite book|title=Makers : a history of American studio craft|url=https://archive.org/details/makershistoryame00kopl|url-access=limited|last=Janet.|first=Koplos|date=2010|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|others=Metcalf, Bruce, 1949-, Center for Craft, Creativity & Design.|isbn=9780807895832|location=Chapel Hill|pages=[https://archive.org/details/makershistoryame00kopl/page/n469 455]–56|oclc=658203695}} Shaechter's work often involves images that might be considered disturbing such as death, disease, or violence.{{Cite book|title=Extra Virgin: The Stained Glass of Judith Schaechter|last=Baker|first=Alex|publisher=Free News Projects|year=2006|location=Philadelphia, PA|pages=13–20}} Early Schaechter pieces, for example, such as [http://www.judithschaechter.com/?p=808 King of Maggots] and Vide Futentes make use of memento mori, symbols of death found in church architecture during medieval times.
Biography
File:The Birth of Eve Schaechter 2013.jpg in Washington, DC in 2022]]
Schaechter was born in Gainesville, Florida, in 1961, but spent her formative years growing up in Massachusetts.{{Cite news|url=https://wowxwow.com/artist-interview/judith-schaechter-ai|title=Judith Schaechter - Artist Interview - WOW x WOW|date=2015-04-13|work=WOW x WOW|access-date=2018-03-13|language=en-GB}} She has served on the faculty of numerous art schools, such as the Rhode Island School of Design. She served as an adjunct professor in the Crafts Department at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and adjunct faculty at the New York Academy of Art in New York, New York. Schaechter has also taught courses at Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, Penland School of Crafts, Toyama Institute of Glass (Toyama, Toyama, Japan) and Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.{{Cite web|url=http://www.judithschaechter.com|title=Judith Schaechter|website=www.judithschaechter.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-13}}
She illustrated the cover for musician Andy Prieboy's 1991 album Montezuma Was a Man of Faith. Her work has been exhibited in the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Schaechter's Bigtop Flophouse Bedspins appeared in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. She has artwork in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Hermitage Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Renwick Gallery, among other public and private collections.
Her stained glass artwork has been included in two survey textbooks: Women Artists by Nancy Heller{{Cite book |title=Women artists : an illustrated history|first=Nancy |last=Heller |date=2003|publisher=Abbeville Press|isbn=0789207680|edition=4th |location=New York|oclc=54500479}} and Makers: a History of American Studio Craft by Bruce Metcalf and Janet Koplos.
Her piece Birth of Venus was included in the Renwick's 50th anniversary exhibition "This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World".{{cite web |title=This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World |url=https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/this-present-moment |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |access-date=January 22, 2023}}
The James A. Michener Art Museum in Pennsylvania is showing Judith Schaechter: Super/Natural, an immersive monumental stained glass dome exploring biophilia, until September 14 2025.{{Cite web |title=Judith Schaechter: Super/Natural |url=https://michener2024.sitedistrict.com/exhibition/judith-schaechter-super-natural/ |access-date=2025-06-01 |website=Michener Art Museum |language=en-US}}
References
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Further reading
- Baker, Alex (Foreword), Judith Schaechter, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/494350034 Extra Virgin: The Stained Glass of Judith Schaechter], Tonearm Productions (2006) {{ISBN|0-9776523-1-9}}
- Johnson, Ken. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801E2D8133CF93BA15751C0A9659C8B63&scp=1&sq=Judith+Schaechter&st=nyt ART IN REVIEW; Judith Schaechter -- 'Extra Virgin'], The New York Times, February 28, 2003. Retrieved 2008-06-03
- {{cite book|title=Judith Schaechter: 1 September-30, 2000, Snyderman Gallery.|year=2000|publisher=Snyderman Gallery|location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|oclc=869485175}}
- {{cite book|title=Judith Schaechter: Selected Works: 1988-2003|date=c. 2003|publisher=COFA|location=New York|oclc=54767106}}
- {{cite book |author1=Marten, Jessica |author2=Adamson, Glenn |author3=Chieffo Raguin, Virginia |author4=Wright, Diane C. |title=The path to paradise : Judith Schaechter's stained-glass art |date=January 2020 |publisher=RIT Press |location=Rochester, New York |isbn=9781939125736 |oclc=1125282318 }}
- {{cite book|last=Moody|first=Judith Tannenbaum ; with essays by Rick|title=Judith Schaechter : heart attacks|year=1995|publisher=Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania|location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|isbn=0884540804|author2=Porges, Maria |oclc=743291029}}
- Official Website of United States Artists[https://web.archive.org/web/20090314205757/http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/Public2/USAFellows/2008Fellows/ByDiscipline/JudithSchaechter/index.cfm]
- {{cite journal|last=Page|first=Andrew|author2=Butler, Jim |author3=Schaechter, Judith |author4= Zimmerman, Walter |title=Panel: Should the Term 'Glass Art' be Abolished|journal=Glass Art Society Journal|issue=2010|pages=137–138}}
- {{cite journal|last=Schaecther|first=Judith|title=Solder and Cremora|journal=Glass Art Society Journal|issue=2004|pages=44–45}}
- {{cite journal|last=Schaechter|first=Judith|title=Beauty and the Beef|journal=Glass Art Society Journal|issue=2010|pages=73–76, 89}}
- Sullivan, Robert. "Through the Looking Glass: Judith Schaechter." American Craft, February/March (2009): 62-69.
External links
- [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-judith-schaechter-15989 2011 Oral History interview with Mija Riedel for Archives of American Art]
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