Judith Schaechter

A gradute of the Rhode Island School of Design, Schaechter was recently included in the Whitney Biennial, and will be featured in the upcoming Venice Biennale as well as the 2011 Renwick Craft Invitational at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Her artworks are in the permanent collections of esteemed museums around the world, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Judith Schaechter balances traditional stained glass techniques with methods she has created herself. Inspired by Eurpoean practices, she creates intricate narratives that have overlapping layers of meaning hidden within the details. Using a mixture of engraving, painting, sandblasting, and filing, Schaechter continues to explore the potentials of stained glass as contempoary a medium.

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Judith Schaechter is a Philadelphia-based artist known for her work in the medium of stained glass. Her pieces often exhibit elements of parable, and her distorted faces and figures, along with her own self-professed atheism ironically clash with her medium's religious tradition. Schaechter has served on the faculty of numerous art schools, such as the Rhode Island School of Design. She is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Crafts Department at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Adjunct Faculty at the New York Academy of Art in New York, New York.

She illustrated the cover for musician Andy Prieboy's 1991 album Montezuma Was a Man of Faith. Her work has been exhibited in the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Schaechter's Bigtop Flophouse Bedspins appeared in the 2002 Whitney Biennial.

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Alex Baker (Foreword), Judith Schaechter, Extra Virgin: The Stained Glass of Judith Schaechter, Tonearm Productions (2006) ISBN 0-9776523-1-9

Ken Johnson, ART IN REVIEW; Judith Schaechter -- 'Extra Virgin', The New York Times, February 28, 2003. Retrieved 2008-06-03

Official Website of United States Artists[1]