Judith Kindler

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Biography

Judith Kindler grew up in Buffalo in a creative family. Her grandfather was a furniture designer and her mother an interior designer. Visiting art galleries in the greater New York area was part of the family routine. Referring to her mother, Kindler was always "the artist". At the age of nine she transformed her bedroom into an art studio, "with my mother's blessing" Judith explains.

Consumed by her work, she will spend two or three years pondering one specific topic and creating art to express the thoughts running through her head. Questioning our consumption in today's culture, lead her to title her 2006 installation of work "Consume." Her work is deeply personal, she is not looking for a direct response to any idea Judith has, but an ephemeral response instead. As a philosophy minor at Kent State, she also developed a compulsion to make the thought process part of her work. She's explored such ideas as memories, dreams, and alter ego in her art. Each are symbolic - the bottles representing illusion, the birds representing the voyeurism of the viewer, the cages representing social conditioning.

While working with a number of medias she is most known for her work in mixed media with encaustics and oils on panels.

Judith paints the subjects, the struggles, the issues which currently impact her and in doing so, endeavor to philosophically deal with them.