Contemporary artist Judith Seligson (b. 1950, Philadelphia, PA) has painted hard-edge abstractions with varicolored geometric shapes that touch and traverse one another.

Exhibitions
"Too Small To Fail" in LINEAGES: Artists are Never Alone, a group exhibition
OPENING OCTOBER 5, 2024 Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum, Manchester, Vermont 5 October 2024 - 23 February 2025
Lineages: Artists Are Never Alone showcases the unique voices and individual talents of eleven contemporary artists and constructs a compelling collective exposition on the diverse webs of influences and personal...
Press
THE NEW YORK TIMES, September 9, 2022
"To Grandmothers’ House We Go. Next Door," by Steven Kurutz September 9, 2022
In a city with no shortage of unusual real estate stories, Adele Geffen Eil and Judith Seligson have created one of the more unexpected living arrangements in New York. The...
Gaps and the Creation of Ideas: An Artist's Book by Judith Seligson
Cambridge Scholars, 2021, 813 pp
Gaps and the Creation of Ideas: An Artist’s Book is a portrait of the space between things, whether they be neurons, quotations, comic-book frames, or fragments in a collage. This twenty-year project is an artist’s book that juxtaposes quotations and images from hundreds of artists and writers with the author’s own thoughts. Using Adobe InDesign® for composition and layout, the author has structured the book to show analogies among disparate texts and images.
Video entries
Painting the Line: A video of the artist in her studio
This line is NOT in fact a line at all. It is the mutual edge of two abutting shapes. The relationship of those two shapes to each other and to the other shapes in the painting is the subject of this body of work. April 24, 2022
I want to tell you about my thoughts feelings experiences as I paint this line, one of millions of lines I’ve painted over the last 45 years. This line is...
Press
Finding the 'Gap': Judith Seligson’s geometric abstractions
by Lydialyle Gibson, HARVARD MAGAZINE November 1, 2022
“SOMETIMES I THINK I know where I’m going, but once you draw a line, you know, it tends to have a mind of its own,” says painter Judith Seligson ’72....

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Contemporary artist Judith Seligson (b. 1950, Philadelphia, PA) has painted hard-edge abstractions with varicolored geometric shapes that touch and traverse one another.

"Too Small To Fail" in LINEAGES: Artists are Never Alone, a group exhibition

THE NEW YORK TIMES, September 9, 2022

Gaps and the Creation of Ideas: An Artist's Book by Judith Seligson

Painting the Line: A video of the artist in her studio

Finding the 'Gap': Judith Seligson’s geometric abstractions