Six page feature article in the art magazine The Guide Artists!  Issue 10. December.

https://theguideartists.com/

A new Buzzfeed article is out! It features my painting as well as 99 other portraits that are worth a look!  

https://www.buzzfeed.com/didimenendez/100-facebook-portraits-1tyzr?utm_term=.nuA3Bo8xvO#.dnxnGywbEN

100 Facebook Portraits

I think if Picasso were around today, he'd be painting his Facebook friends. From time to time we have all been inspired by our Facebook Friends. Some of the portraits highlighted on this list are traditional head and shoulders and some are just wild like the portrait of the guy with an octopus on his head! There are over a billion users on Facebook. Here are 100 professional artists who from time to time have found the time to render a likeness of their Facebook friends. Maybe one of these will someday be at an auction. Some have already been exhibited. Follow these artists on Instagram and check out all of their work and maybe you will find one to immortalize you in a portrait. One thing I forgot to mention is that these artists are all members of our very strong PoetsArtists community platform. 

Honored to be selected for this Buzzfeed.com article!

https://www.buzzfeed.com/didimenendez/collectors-corner-a-look-at-what-art-collectors-1tyzr?utm_term=.ntxvRnZkj6&ref=mobile_share#.wewvm5y2oA

Collector's Corner: A Look At What Art Collectors Are Shopping For

For this article the publisher of PoetsArtists asks art collectors to look through new work posted on the Community tab of the platform. The art collectors remain anonymous and give feedback on the works they like from the selections. Please keep in mind that this platform centers on Figurative artworks. In some cases the same artwork was chosen more than once since all the collectors participating were selecting from the same works.

Posted on November 20, 2017, at 6:51 a.m.

didimenendez

Community Contributor

Collector #1 | California

Collector #1 selected works by Judith Peck, Lesley Thiel, and Anna Wypych.

Judith Peck

Expecting Magic | oil and plaster on board | 11x14 inches

Judith Peck’s little portrait titled Expecting Magic offers some things we love in a portrait. First, it captures an intimate mood and a feeling of atmosphere beyond simply recording a portrait. The heavy attention to interesting texture makes this a painting about painting, and the balance between accuracy and loose paint demonstrates the kind of fun you can have when you aren’t a slave to realism.

2017

I am very honored to be a part of this Poets/Artists Publication!

50 GREAT FIGURATIVE ARTWORKS 2017        curated by Steven DaLuz

https://www.poetsandartists.com/download/50-great-figurative-artworks-2017

 Issue #89 curated by Steven DaLuz. The print-on-demand is available from Blurb.

One House Project

http://www.artwatchdc.com/judith-peck/

An installation created by Art Watch DC with the support of Touchstone Foundation for the Arts.

Exhibition: November 3 – 25, 2017

Opening Reception:  Friday, November 3, 6 – 8:30 pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, November 11, 2 - 4 pm
Workshop: Saturday, November 18, 1 - 3 pm

Touchstone Gallery
901 New York Ave NW
Washington DC 20001

Collage- Paper and plaster shards.

 Solo Show- Gathering Shards
Hill Center Galleries

Holiday Reception: Sunday, December 10, 3-5pm

921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20003

Women and Anger: Resistance, Power, and Inspiration

Koehnline Museum of Art

September 28th -Oct 20th 2017
Reception Thursday, September 28th, 5-8pm 
1600 East Golf Rd

Des Plaines, IL 60016

Hill Center Galleries

2nd Place Award - Juror Claude L. Elliott

Exhibition Dates: June 28–October 1, 2017

921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE

Washington, DC 20003
http://www.hillcenterdc.org/galleries/
Pendulum       
Oil and plaster on board           40x30               













30th September Competition
2nd place award-Juried by Mark Tullos

June 2nd to Sept. 22nd 2017

Alexandria Museum of Art
933 2nd St
Alexandria, LA 71301

http://themuseum.org/exhibits/30th-september-competition

Catalog :
https://issuu.com/alexandriamuseumofart/docs/amoa_sept_comp_catalog2017_producti    

Studio Visit  on Patreon by Didi Memendez
https://www.patreon.com/posts/studio-visit-13214077?utm_campaign=patron_engagement&utm_medium=post_notification_email&utm_source=post_link

Maureen E. Doallas has featured my work in her Artist Watch series!
http://www.escapeintolife.com/painting/judith-peck/



Art of Engagement  

August 4th to August 24th 2017

Touchstone Gallery

curated by Jack Rasmussen 
901 New York Avenue NW 

Washington, DC     20006

Included in the Poets and Artist Magazine- 
Idiosyncratic Monochromes- Issue 85 June 

Curated by Lorena Kloosterboer

Cultural Obliteration   oil on board  12x12 inches



















        Won Best in Show 
                     and
        Students' Choice Awards
Juror-Jeffrey Allison of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
5th Annual Juried Art Show
Art Speaks on the Bay 2017

May 6 - June 3, 2017
Art Speaks Gallery
279 Main Street
Mathews, VA 23109




Invitational-The Night Journey- 
Sold to a private collector
Alchemical Vessels
Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery
Smith Center for Healing and Arts
1632 U Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
202 483-8600
http://smithcenter.org

May  2017

Artist Statement for my piece, Plate of Armor 

Growing up as an outsider informed my approach as an artist, working on themes of social justice. My vessel bears an enamel painting of two intertwined figures from Roman mythology, based on a design from the parade armor of Henry II of France. The presence of symbols of war on this everyday object evoke the intrusion of threat into peaceful existence and the cruel necessity of psychic armor for many in day-to-day life. The cracks in the vessel are repaired in a nod to the Japanese art of kintsugi; rather than hide the object’s damage or dispose of it, these imperfections are accentuated as essential to the unique history and beauty of the object. So to do our own individual hardships create who we are, and rather than hide the experiences that necessitated our psychic armor, we must learn to find beauty and healing even in pain.

Judith Peck

8th Annual off the Wall Fundraiser-Sold to private collectors
7th of April 2017  
Masur Museum of Art
400 S Grand Street
Monroe, LA 71202



Trouvaille Art Exhibit and Auction- Sold to private collector 
Foster Tanner Fine Arts Gallery
March 20-April 1, 2017
Art Auction-Saturday, April 1, 2017 


Catalogued
Florida A&M University
Tallahassee, FL

News for 2017

Two of my paintings will be featured in the
International Art exhibit at the
Brownsville Museum of Fine Art
March 22nd -April 5th 2017
660 E. Ringgold Street
Brownsville, TX  78520


FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN
National Juried Exhibition
Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts 
Frederick Gallery
Exhibit  Feb, 24th - March 31st
Awarded first place by juror, Preston Thayer 
813 Sophia Street
Fredericksburg, VA 22401


Artsy Page of my work:  https://www.artsy.net/artist/judith-peck





Sight Unseen Exhibit and Poets and Artists Magazine Issue
Curated by Alia El-Bermani
Opening Reception: Feb 24th, 6-9pm
February 24 to March 25th,  2017
Abend Gallery
2260 E. Colfax Ave. 

Denver, CO 80206

Catalog issued by Poets and Artists - January 2017

Feature article by John O'Hern in the American Art Collector Magazine January 2017 Issue 135