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Partner gallery: Galerie Heike Strelow
Judith Trepp
Judith Trepp (*1941, New York City) studied at Bard College before relocating to Zurich in 1970, where she continues to live and work. Shortly after her arrival, she founded Quilts Unlimited, a textile studio and production center devoted to both traditional quilting techniques and the development of her own contemporary designs. This early period of intensive engagement with textile and color design proved to be a crucial and formative phase in her artistic development, during which her refined sensitivity to chromatic nuance was cultivated and the conceptual and material foundations of her later painterly idiom were established.
Since 1989, Trepp has exhibited extensively in Switzerland, England, and the United States, including a solo exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) in 2010.
Her works have been featured at numerous international art fairs, including Art Chicago, Art Miami, the London Art Fair, and KIAF Seoul, and can be found in private and public collections in Switzerland, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Trepp describes her approach as thinking “from the wall,” an attitude that decisively shapes her works on canvas in oil, egg tempera, or pigment with tempera. In addition, she creates works on handmade Indian paper with acrylic or Japanese ink, as well as sculptural works in brushed stainless steel with automotive paint.
Trepp’s visual language is characterized by a minimalist formal vocabulary combined with a pronounced emotional intensity and intuitive clarity, sustained by what she terms “active silence.” A widely traveled artist, she has spent extended periods in India and Japan, as well as in diverse regions throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States. These sustained encounters have exerted a significant influence on her artistic thinking, expanding her practice through a multilayered cultural and philosophical framework. The reduced palette, meditative rhythms, and spatial clarity that define her work may be understood as the formal articulation of these transcultural experiences and the broadened perceptual horizons they have engendered.
