Judith Margolis Explained

Judith Margolis
Birth Name:Judith Cohen
Birth Date:September 24, 1944
Birth Place:New York City, New York, United States
Field:Painter

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.[1] Margolis also studied at Lone Mountain College in San Francisco, and has an MFA (1986) from the University of Southern California.[2]

Travels

Margolis led an Orthodox Jewish life in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Israel before leaving the orthodoxy. And for the last 10 years, since leaving Orthodoxy, she has been slowly finding a balance between everything she has gained from her religious life and a retrieval of the freedoms that she believes are important for her art.[1]

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.[3] [4] [5] [6]

She was selected as one of ten international Common Ground artists.[7]

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.[8]

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.[9]

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)[11] [12]

The Underground Dreams of a Cactus, Limited edition hand painted etching, mono-print cover. (1983)[13]

Family

Judith's second husband, the author David Margolis, died on July 17, 2005.[14] 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

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Stromberg . David . 5 March 2015 . A brush with contradictions . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20190327091212/https://www.jpost.com/In-Jerusalem/A-brush-with-contradictions-393016 . 27 March 2019 . 8 March 2019 . The Jerusalem Post.
  2. Web site: Judith Margolis . deviated . https://web.archive.org/web/20151108050926/https://jewishartsalon.org/judith-margolis/ . 8 November 2015 . 16 May 2019 . Jewish Art Salon . en.
  3. 1998 . Front Matter . Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues . 1 . 0793-8934 . 40326470 .
  4. 2019 . Front Matter . Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues . 35 . 1–6 . 10.2979/nashim.35.1.fm . 0793-8934 . 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 . 10.2979/nas.2010.-.20.132 . 0793-8934 . 10.2979/nas.2010.-.20.132. 154387696 .
  6. Web site: Melammed . Renée Levine . 5 November 2015 . His Story/Her Story: Women of the Book . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221201005754/https://www.jpost.com/Not-Just-News/His-StoryHer-Story-Women-of-the-Book-432148 . 1 December 2022 . 16 May 2019 . The Jerusalem Post.
  7. Web site: 25 June 2010 . Whole Life Times . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20161018171947/http://www.commonground2010.com/?p=645 . 18 October 2016 . 16 February 2016 . Common Ground.
  8. Web site: Kushner . Joel L. . 2019 . Life Support: Invitation to Prayer By Judith Cohen Margolis . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220615003919/https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-08373-5.html . 15 June 2022 . 8 March 2019 . Penn State University Press.
  9. Web site: Abramowitz . Heddy Breuer . 16 December 2019 . The art of Kaddish . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220127075059/https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/The-art-of-Kaddish-610754 . 27 January 2022 . 3 March 2020 . The Jerusalem Post.
  10. Web site: Judith Margolis, USA/Israel . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120323142509/http://womenofthebook.org/artists/judith-margolis/ . 23 March 2012 . 23 December 2011 . Women of the Book.
  11. Web site: 2009 . Judith Margolis: Countdown to Perfection-Meditations on the Sefirot . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230520200820/https://huc.edu/museum_publications/countdown-to-perfection-meditations-on-the-sefirot/ . 20 May 2023 . 16 May 2019 . . en.
  12. Web site: McBee . Richard . 19 July 2013 . Learning to Count: Omer Counter by Judith Margolis . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221207000433/https://richardmcbee.com/writings/learning-to-count-omer-counter-by-judith-margolis/ . 7 December 2022 . 16 May 2019 . Richard McBee Artist and Writer . en-GB.
  13. Web site: The underground dreams of a cactus . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210621010256/https://wsworkshop.org/collection/the-underground-dreams-of-a-cactus/ . 21 June 2021 . 16 May 2019 . Women's Studio Workshop . en-US.
  14. News: 21 July 2005 . Obituaries - Author & Former Jewish Journal Columnist David Margolis . . 16 February 2016.
  15. Web site: Female Artists Reinterpret the Torah in 'Women of the Book'. 2015-10-22. Tablet Magazine. en. 2019-05-16.
  16. Nashman Fraiman. Susan. 2013–2014. A Jewish Art. Milin Havivin. 7. 72–87.
  17. Web site: Judith Margolis . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20161221174855/http://www.commonground2010.com/?page_id=242 . 21 December 2016 . 16 February 2016 . Common Ground.

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