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Judy PfaffWufu Wu (The Five Blessings) - limited edition hand signed mixed media 1995
1995
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Judy Pfaff
Wufu Wu, 1995 (The Five Blessings)
Original etching on Japanese Kozo paper with hand-colored opalescence
Hand signed, numbered from the limited edition of 120, and dated in graphite pencil lower front with publisher's blind stamp
Frame included: floated and framed in the original vintage wood frame with plexiglass
This work was featured in the invitational exhibition "Women on Paper" at the Sager Reeves Gallery in April, 2021, and is reproduced in the exhibition catalogue.
"Wufu (Chinese: 五福), meaning the five blessings, is a concept that signifies a grouping of certain good fortunes and luck in Chinese culture. The number five is regarded as an auspicious number in Chinese traditions and closely associated with the Five Elements (Wu Xing, Chinese: 五行), which are essential for a good life as well as the basic organisational principle in Chinese thought. As a result, the number five appears ubiquitously as in the Five Blessings..." - Wiki
This work depicts the five fingers of two human hands - reprising the Chinese them of #5 denoting good luck, but also alluding to the familiar "Hamsa"(Arabic: خمسة khamsah) the palm-shaped amulet popular throughout the Middle East and in the Maghreb and commonly used in jewelry and wall hangings. Depicting the open right hand, an image recognized and used as a sign of protection in many times throughout history, the hamsa is believed to provide defense against the evil eye. Khamsah is an Arabic word that means "five", but also "the five fingers of the han.
Thus, we believe that purchasing this auspicious work will bestow double luck upon the recipient.
Pencil signed and dated recto. Printed at the Tandem Press of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with their blind stamp, lower right. Published by the Madison Print Club, Madison. Elegantly floated and framed.
Measurements:
Sheet
12.125 x 29 inches
Framed:
18.125 x 34.875 x 0.75 inches
More about the renowned Judy Pfaff:
eferenced by critics as a pioneer of installation-art, this oft-cited label for the sprawling career of Judy Pfaff provides an introductory sense of Pfaff’s legacy, but proves limiting to the ever-changing work she has been making for decades and still today. Born in London in 1946, Pfaff received a BFA from Washington University Saint Louis (1971), and an MFA from Yale University (1973) where she studied with Al Held. Her work spans across disciplines from painting to printmaking to sculpture to installation, but is perhaps best described as painting in space. These spatial paintings inhabit and transform their environments, becoming ad hoc homes for viewers and the artist. Drawing upon a wealth of spiritual, botanical, and art historical imagery, Pfaff’s installations simultaneously and without contradiction reference the austerity of a cathedral and the temporality of a mandala. Like a mandala, the life of Pfaff’s work is brief and burning, deconstructed and sections discarded after a show comes down. Each installation considers the specific spatial geometries of the room, the ceiling, the street out the window, so that no two shows are ever alike. This tenacious generosity Pfaff offers her viewers, in which she and her crew labor for months or years for shows that last days or weeks, sets Pfaff apart from colleagues in other disciplines who can rely on sales of discrete objects. Refusing to give narrative meaning to her work, this urgent and ferocious need to labor for the visual and tactile is remarkable in an era where language dominates artistic activity. She exhibited work in the Whitney Biennials of 1975, 1981, and 1987, and represented the United States in the 1998 Sao Paulo Bienal. Her pieces reside in the permanent collections of MOMA, Whitney Museum of Art, Tate Gallery, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Detroit Institute of Arts, among others. She is the recipient of many awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center (2014), the MacArthur Foundation Award (2004), and the Guggenhiem Fellowship (1983). Pfaff lives and works in Tivoli, New York.
- Creator:Judy Pfaff (1946, British)
- Creation Year:1995
- Dimensions:Height: 18.2 in (46.23 cm)Width: 34.9 in (88.65 cm)Depth: 0.75 in (1.91 cm)
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- Condition:Ships framed.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745213663152
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