... tJUDITH ROTH:
Biography
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Roth graduated from the Boston Museum
School on scholarship, earned a BFA from Tufts University.Another
scholarship was awarded before her senior year to attend Skowhegan
School of Painting and Sculpture. Later she took classes at theSchool
of the Art Institute (SAIC) and the Hyde Park Art Center.
Roth taught figure drawing and painting for many years at institutions
including SAIC, Columbia College in Chicago, Suburban Fine Arts
Center (now The Art Center) in Highland Park IL; The Figurative Art
League, founded by Fred Berger, in Evanston IL; and Adler House in
Libertyville IL.
She has been the recipient of many awards & purchase prizes including
an Illinois Arts Council Project Completion Grant which culminated in
a one-person show at the Illinois Arts Council, Chicago IL.
Widely exhibited, Roth’s many exhibitions include Butler Institute of
American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg,
Virginia; Trenton State College, Trenton NJ; National Academy of
Design, New York; Wright State University, Dayton OH, College of Lake
County, Grayslake IL; J. Rosenthal Fine Arts, Ltd., Chicago IL.
Some of the many private and corporate collections that hold her art are:
Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois; Sandoz/Novartis, AG, Switzerland;
Illinois State Museum, Springfield IL; College of Lake County
Foundation, Grayslake IL ; Schiff, Hardin & Waite, Chicago IL;
Whole Health Management, Inc., Cleveland Ohio, Abbott Laboratories,
etc.
Selected by the Illinois Committee for the National Museum of Women
in the Arts, her drawing “The Dance” was included in the
exhibition “Illinois Women Artists: The New Millennium” a
show which traveled from the John Thompson Center, Chicago to the
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC where it was on
view for three months; then continued to travel to museums and
galleries throughout Illinois for two years.
Her painting “War” was featured in an exhibition at the
Spertus Museum in Chicago, IL. ”Engaging With the Present: The
Contribution of the American Jewish Artists Club to Modern Art in
Chicago, 1928-2004”.
As president of the Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art (CWCA)
2001-2005, she founded The Ravenswood Corridor Arts & Industry
Walk (now the greatly expanded Ravenswood ArtWalk (RAW), to engage
her community via the CWCA, with Chicago Artists’ Month, and in
2006 was appointed by Alderman Schulter to the CTA Brown Line “Arts
in Transit” panel.
That year she was also honored by the Ravenswood Community Council “in
recognition and appreciation for outstanding dedication and service
to the Ravenswood Community.”
Featured in a two person show “Figures” at College of Lake County
in 2009, she is an affiliate member of ARC Gallery, Chicago Illinois,
one of the longest running women’s cooperative galleries in the
country, and showed a major collaborative piece at the gallery’s
Member’s Show “Collaboration” in October in
conjunction with the 2009 Chicago Artists’ Month.
From 2004-2009 she had a large body of work on view at the Berman Center,
a women’s health and wellness facility founded by Dr. Laura
Berman, at 211 E. Ontario St., Chicago IL, and in 2010 was honored by
the Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art for “Excellence in the
Arts” as an artist, artist advocate, and founder of Ravenswood
ArtWalk.
She continues to exhibit in group shows, will be in a two person
exhibition at Chicago State University opening January 27, 2011; is
represented by the Avram Eisen Gallery; Joy Horwich, Artists’ Rep; and
is an Affiliate Member of ARC Gallery, in Chicago Illinois.
Judith Roth
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