“Although these works look random, when you begin to get into them it is remarkable how all the elements seem to hang together and develop on one another. She seems somehow to get order and disorder working for her at the same time. It is a very contemporary quality, given our lives today.”

Benjamin Gennochio on Judy Pfaff

New York, New York – Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe is pleased to announce an exhibition of work by Judy Pfaff, which will open on 11 October and will remain on view through 10 November 2012. A reception for the artist will take place 11 October, between 6:00 and 8:00 PM. The public is welcome.

Judy Pfaff was born in London in 1946. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1971 and graduated from Yale University with a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1973.

A pioneer of installation art, Pfaff has had over 100 major solo installations across the country and abroad at such venues as the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; the Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; the Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH and the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Seemingly limitless in her invention, Pfaff’s work is exuberant and defies categorization. There is a sense that Pfaff’s art is too vital to be contained. It begs to be unrestricted and is realized in sprawling installations and rambunctious clusters. She is equally as untethered and freed in her use of material. Steel, glass, florescent lights, found objects, root systems of trees and paper are only some of the many materials that she has used. However, to see Pfaff’s work as an embracement of everything to the point of chaos is to misunderstand it. In truth, her work is ordered in the way that nature is ordered, without boundaries.