Becoming a sculptor never crossed Judy Pfaff's mind, yet she has had an excellent career being one so far. Pfaff employs the media of steel, fiberglass, things found in nature, and paint to create her pieces.
Pfaff's emotions definitely steer how her works turn out depending on what's going on in her personal life. One of her installation pieces, for example, dealt with darkness because she had recently experienced several deaths of close friends and family members. It has also been observed that plant life, medical illustrations, and maps are themes she commonly uses.
Pfaff's works are non-representative and organic in form. This organic perception may in part be due to the natural materials she uses. Pfaff brought the outdoors indoors with one piece when she constructed and painted tree roots (and big ones at that) into these nest-like shapes. Color plays a big part in a lot of Pfaff's works as well. Sometimes, her works are monochromatic or uses only two colors while other times a broad range of colors are used. This is true with her drawings that employed a multitude of warm colors reminiscent of fire.
There are times when life gets hectic and is full of drama. However, Pfaff is able to find the "sweeter sense of things", no matter what life throws at her, by the act of creating her works of art.
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"Judy Pfaff." Art21. PBS, n.d. Web. 15 Mar. 2014.
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