Judith Seligson

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About Judith Seligson

Judith Seligson is a painter and writer living in Alexandria, Virginia and New York City. She received a B.A. with honors from Harvard University (’72), where she majored in Economics. She also studied with painter Flora Natapoff and served as her teaching assistant. She audited Philip Guston’s graduate seminar at Boston University. In 1975, she received a scholarship to the Provincetown Workshop, where she studied with Leo Manso and Victor Candell. Ms. Seligson has had several solo exhibitions at the Jane Haslem Gallery in Washington, DC and Anita Friedman Fine Arts in New York City. She had a one-person show at the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute in 1997, and the Issey Miyake boutique on Madison Avenue during Fashion Meets Art in 2004. She has shown at Gary Snyder Fine Arts, NYC and the Art in Embassies Program. Ms. Seligson is known for several bodies of work: hard-edged oil paintings, text-based collages and digital prints, pastels on photographs, her articles, and her talks about her text drawings. She is known, too, for her twenty-year GAP project. Her book, The Gap: A Portrait of the Space Between Things, will be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in late 2019. She has given talks at the International Henry James Society Conference and the American Literature Association.