Judith Bledsoe

Atlanta Olympics - Swimming and Running, Pastel and Collage on Paper

circa 1996

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Atlanta Olympics - Cat and Torch. Year: circa 1996, Medium: Pastel and Collage on Paper, signed l.r., Size: 25 x 19.5 in. (63.5 x 49.53 cm),...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Atlanta Olympics - Star Athletes. Year: circa 1996, Medium: Pastel and Collage on Paper, signed l.r., Size: 25 x 19.5 in. (63.5 x 49.53 cm),...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Atlantic Olympics - Tennis with Cats. Year: circa 1996, Medium: Pastel and Collage on Paper, signed l.r., Size: 25.5 x 15 in. (64.77 x 38.1 ...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Atlanta Olympics - Runner with Torch. Year: circa 1996, Medium: Pastel and Collage on Paper, signed l.r., Size: 25 x 19.5 in. (63.5 x 49.53 ...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Atlanta Olympics - Gymnastics and Weightlifting. Year: circa 1996, Medium: Pastel and Collage on Paper, signed l.r., Size: 10.5 x 25.5 in. (...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Atlanta Olympics - Athlete with Ball. Year: circa 1996, Medium: Pastel and Collage on Paper, signed l.r., Size: 25.5 x 19.5 in. (64.77 x 49....

Price and size includes frames (maple wood with white mats). Artwork 58" x 38" Her pastel-on-sandpaper series, "Domestic Threats" and "Black Paintings", both use cultural objects as surrogates for human beings acting in mysterious, highly charged narratives.[9][10] Rachko also has created a series of photographs entitled "Gods and Monsters".[11] In these chromogenic prints, she is "painting with a camera," creating variations that free the camera from being a mechanical recording device of what lies before it. She prints all of these images by hand. The earlier "Domestic Threats" pastel-on-sandpaper paintings used her West Village apartment or her 1932 Sears house in Virginia as a backdrop. The "Black Paintings" series grew directly from "Domestic Threats". In the "Black Paintings," the figures (actors) take center stage. All background details, furniture, rugs, etc. have been eliminated and replaced by intense dark black pastel. Each painting takes months to complete as she slowly builds up as many as 30 layers of soft pastel. Her long-standing fascination with traditional masks progressed in the spring of 2017 when she visited the National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore in La Paz, Bolivia where one exhibition included more than fifty festival masks. The resulting series is entitled “Bolivianos”.[12] She has also written an e-book, From Pilot to Painter[13] and writes a regular blog, Barbara Rachko...

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Signed and dated to lower right 'Paul Rand 4.6.52. Paul Rand said. “People who don’t have a sense of humor really have serious problems.” Besides being a seminal force in modern desi...

Pastel on paper pasted on canvas Hand-signed on the back by the artist “At first glance, we are invited to a colorful carnival. Everything is movement here! As if Julien Wolf had tr...