Judge's latest series employs an even more original and expressive method of capturing the spirit of her subjects. To the textural relief she adds clothing or other personal items. The image emerges gradually, cumulatively, from the quasi-abstract modeling of the acrylic and from the human energy transmitted by the objects associated with the subject to produce a spiritually rounded-out portrait.

From the more abstract pieces to Judge's earlier periods to her present, highly personal work, a common theme has been present: the search for the human spirit. The vivid gestural energy of the composition, the richness of textural surface, and the suggestive enhancement with relief, bring her current work eerily close to capturing that elusive thing for us.

Dennis Wepman