Judith Margolis

Judith Margolis
Born
Judith Cohen

(1944-09-24) September 24, 1944 (age 82)
New York City, New York, United States
Known forPainter

Judith Margolis (born September 24, 1944) is an Israel-based American artist working visually in paintings, drawings, artist's books and multi-media collages. In her art and writing she "explores tensions between consciousness, feminism, and religious ritual tradition".

Early life

Margolis was born into a Jewish family and Yiddish-speaking community in the Bronx, NY. In 1948 her family moved to suburban New Jersey, from which the adolescent Margolis would adventure to New York City for her early artistic education.

Early artistic training

Margolis began her artistic training during high school at age 15 with a drawing class at The Art Students League, then attended Cooper Union, where she met her first husband Albie Tabackman. The two traveled across the United States to California, where they lived at Magic Forest Farm in Oregon. Margolis also studied at Lone Mountain College in San Francisco, and has an MFA (1986) from the University of Southern California.

Travels

Margolis spent an Orthodox Jewish life in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Israel before leaving her orthodoxy. Since leaving orthodoxy, she has been gradually finding a balance between her religious learning and retrieval of the freedoms that she believes are important for her art.

Career

Since 1998, Margolis has been the Art Editor of Nashim: The Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues, published by Indiana University Press.

She was selected as one of ten international Common Ground artists.

Margolis is Creative Director of Bright Idea Books, which produces limited edition and artist's books.

Margolis wrote and illustrated the prayer book Life Support; Invitation to Prayer.

In 2015 she was co-curator for the Jerusalem Biennale, presenting the Women of the Book exhibition in which women artists offered their own interpretations of the weekly divisions of the bible.

Education

Notable works

Life Support: Invitation to Prayer, Penn State University Press (2019)

Countdown to Perfection:Meditations on the Sefirot. Limited edition fine art unbound book contained in an individual, linen clad, oyster box. (2009)

The Underground Dreams of a Cactus, Limited edition hand painted etching, mono-print cover. (1983)

Family

Judith's second husband, the author David Margolis, died on July 17, 2005. She has three children and six grandchildren.

Exhibitions

One person exhibitions

Two person exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Collections

New York

Seattle

Jerusalem

Tel Aviv

San Diego, California

Los Angeles

Moscow

Berkeley, California

Boca Raton, Florida

Baltimore

Ithaca, New York

Faculty appointments, residencies and awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 Stromberg, David (5 March 2015). "A brush with contradictions". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 "Judith Margolis". Jewish Art Salon. Archived from the original on 8 November 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  3. ↑ "Front Matter". Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues (1). 1998. ISSN 0793-8934. JSTOR 40326470.
  4. ↑ "Front Matter". Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues (35): 1–6. 2019. doi:10.2979/nashim.35.1.fm. ISSN 0793-8934. JSTOR 10.2979/nashim.35.1.fm.
  5. ↑ Greniman, Deborah; Margolis, Judith (2010). "Feminist Artists, Feminist Matrons". Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues (20): 132–139. doi:10.2979/nas.2010.-.20.132. ISSN 0793-8934. JSTOR 10.2979/nas.2010.-.20.132. S2CID 154387696.
  6. ↑ Melammed, Renée Levine (5 November 2015). "His Story/Her Story: Women of the Book". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 1 December 2022. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  7. ↑ "Whole Life Times". Common Ground. 25 June 2010. Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  8. 1 2 Kushner, Joel L. (2019). "Life Support: Invitation to Prayer By Judith Cohen Margolis". Penn State University Press. Archived from the original on 15 June 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  9. 1 2 Abramowitz, Heddy Breuer (16 December 2019). "The art of Kaddish". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 27 January 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  10. ↑ "Judith Margolis, USA/Israel". Women of the Book. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
  11. 1 2 3 "Judith Margolis: Countdown to Perfection-Meditations on the Sefirot". Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion. 2009. Archived from the original on 20 May 2023. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  12. ↑ McBee, Richard (19 July 2013). "Learning to Count: Omer Counter by Judith Margolis". Richard McBee Artist and Writer. Archived from the original on 7 December 2022. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  13. 1 2 "The underground dreams of a cactus". Women's Studio Workshop. Archived from the original on 21 June 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  14. ↑ "Obituaries - Author & Former Jewish Journal Columnist David Margolis". Jewish Journal. 21 July 2005. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  15. ↑ "Female Artists Reinterpret the Torah in 'Women of the Book'". Tablet Magazine. 2015-10-22. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
  16. ↑ Nashman Fraiman, Susan (2013–2014). "A Jewish Art" (PDF). Milin Havivin. 7: 72–87.
  17. ↑ "Judith Margolis". Common Ground. Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.