Judy Fox is an American sculptor who was born in

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in 1976, earned a BA from

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in 1978, studied at the

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Paris, France in 1979, and received an MFA from

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in 1983. She was an art student at the time when figurative art was submerged by abstraction, and took that as a challenge. In 2006, she was awarded a

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fellowship. Fox is a faculty member at the

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. Judy Fox lives and works in New York City. She is best known for her fired clay life size figures of nude women and children that are realistically painted with

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. Her sculptures of children address gender roles, and her meticulously detailed adult nudes reflect her interest in feminist issues. ''Courtesan'' from 1995, in the collection of the

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, is an example of the artist's life size terracotta nudes of small children. The (in Klosterneuburg, Austria), the

, the

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(Charlotte, North Carolina), and the Museum Moderner Kunst (Vienna) are among the public collections holding works by Judy Fox. In 2020, Fox's work was included as part of Intersect Chicago. In 2022, Fox was one of fifteen artists who won the American Academy of Arts and Letters award. She is represented by Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York.judyfox.net
Judy Fox’s website

Sources and notes

* Diehl, Carol, ''Judy Fox, Figures in Limbo'', '' Art in America'', November, 2000. * Nadelman, Cynthia, ''Middle Aged Gods and Giant Babies'', ''

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