Judy Gelles
David/Braces
2009
archival pigment print
10" x 10"
About Judy Gelles
'In 1977 Judy Gelles began writing on her photographs to document her life. What began as a personal recording has turned into a social document. She received a MFA degree in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1991. Her work is in major collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Artist Residencies include the MacDowell Colony, the Visual Studies Workshop, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. She has published three books: “When We Were Ten” and “Florida Family Portrait” with the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY, and “Beach Boxes” with Nazraeli Press. Awards include 2007-2008 Fleisher Challenge Artist, Philadelphia, an Individual Artist Grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, an Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts Grant, Philadelphia, a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Artist As Catalyst Grant, and a grant from WYBE Public Television, Philadelphia Stories New Program Grant. She is represented by the Stephen Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles, the Cohen Amador Gallery in New York City, and the Etherton Gallery in Tucson, Arizona. She has taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Tufts University in Boston, Boston College, University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and the International Center for Photography in New York City.'