Judith Vivell
"Judith Vivell's bird paintings carry an agenda that emerges from the tradition of great portraitists. She validates the importance of seeing, or to coin a phrase, of visual intimacy. She insists on looking, one subject at a time."
- Art Critic, Cassandra Neyenesch
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Judith Vivell was born in Marin County, California and attended the University of California at Berkeley, where she received her BA in Art History. After graduating, Vivell spent over a year in Colombia, South America where she studied with the great Colombian sculptor Edgar Negret. On her return to the United States, the artist studied painting and printmaking at The Art Students' League with Larry Poons, Morris Kantor, and Al Held. In 1971, she received a Masters degree in Painting from Hunter College.
Now Vivell lives and paints between her studios in New York City, New Hampshire, and Maine. She travels extensively and internationally to study birds for her large-scale paintings. The artist approaches each new subject as an individual rather than a type. Her color sense is notable and it is evident how a choice of background colors one's whole sense of the bird.
Vivell has had solo exhibitions at galleries up and down the East Coast and in San Francisco. Her work has been featured in numerous domestic group shows and internationally featured at the Basel Art Fair, Switzerland, Arte Fiere, Bologna, Italy, Frankfort Art Fair, Germany, and the Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paolo, Brazil.
Her paintings are included in numerous private, corporate, and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University.
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