For sale is one of four original signed screen prints by the highly regarded New York City abstract imagery artist Judy Rifka (Born 1945

Provenance: Brooke Alexander Gallery; New York City.

1 of 4 prints by this artist we are selling. Please see our picture section if you want a particular numbered print by the artist. These are all artist proofs. One HG proof.

Artist: Judy Rifka (Born 1945

Medium: Screenprint on thick paperboard

Title: Off The Wall

Date: 1982

Edition: Artists Proof

Signature: Signed in pencil upper left by the artist

Framing: Never framed

Condition: Fine. Unframed as acquired

Judy Rifka

Measurements: 10 1/4" x 18"

Unframed As Acquired

Judy Rifka, video artist, book artist and abstract painter, is a multi-faceted artist who has worked in a variety of media in addition to her painting and printmaking. She was born in 1945 in New York City and studied art at Hunter College, the New York Studio School and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.

Her printmaking includes themes of the Italian Renaissance with church facades and According to critic Ann Shengold, "Rifka's work has been characterized by an agitated, often thick, black line which has become a kind of shorthand for her subjects: figures, architecture, and everyday objects. Her iconography describes the city she resides in, the places she travels to, and the events that are reported in the media. The work is quite frequently laced with visual and verbal puns."

Rifka's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; New York Public Library, New York City; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts; University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; and Staatliche Museum, Berlin, Germany.

Her one-person exhibitions include New York City venues of Franklin Furnace, in 1977, and Printed Matter, in 1980; Museum fur Kultur, in Berlin and Hamburg, Germany, in 1981; Knight Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1984; and an installation in Gracie Mansion, the residence of the Mayor in New York City, in 1985.

A catalogue of a show in which Rifka participated, "Nine from Carolina: An Exhibition of Women Artists", was published in 1989 by the combined efforts of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the North Carolina State Committee.