Judith Greenwald

From a wide array of materials, Greenwald creates assemblage paintings that are intended to be emotionally resonant and evocative. Her visual language has a powerful physicality. She is both architect— building up surfaces— and archeologist— scratching, digging, sanding and gauging those surfaces. Her work portrays not only the complexity of the surface itself-- the dynamic interplay of form, color, and texture-- but also the mysteries which lie beneath the surface, the layers of life and experience that are always present but never entirely visible. As a retired psychotherapist as well as an artist, Greenwald is drawn to the creative process as a vital and liberating expression of human experience. Her work has always been deeply personal. The paintings, themselves, are simultaneously strong and fragile, conveying both process and the arresting intricacy of inner life.