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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.
In 1987, she participated in the interdisciplinary COLLARCH program for female architects and painters organized by the Zurich Association of Master Painters and Plasterers. Her exploration of built space and its crafts led directly to her first solo exhibition and a major commission for large-format murals in a residential development in Hasliberg, Switzerland. Further commissions for institutional and organizational spaces followed. Since 1989, Trepp has exhibited extensively in Switzerland, England, and the USA, including a solo exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) in 2010.
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.
Her visual language is minimalist, yet imbued with emotional intensity and intuitive clarity—sustained by what she calls "active silence." A widely traveled artist, Trepp spent Trepp periods of time in India and Japan, as well as in various regions of Asia, Europe, and the US. These experiences have significantly influenced her artistic thinking and expanded her practice with a multi-layered cultural and philosophical perspective. The reduced palette, meditative rhythms, and spatial clarity that characterize her work reflect the depth of these transcultural encounters and the broadening of her perspective that resulted from them.
