Past Exhibition
The Path To Paradise: Judith Schaechter Stained-Glass Art
The Path to Paradise features approximately 45 of Judith Schaechter’s stained-glass panels along with a selection of related drawings and process material.
Judith Schaechter has stretched the medium of stained glass into a potent and incisive art form for the 21st century, boldly paving her path in the diverse arena of contemporary art.
The Path to Paradise: Judith Schaechter’s Stained-Glass Art is the first survey and major scholarly assessment of this groundbreaking artist’s 37-year career. Organized by the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, the exhibition is drawn from both private and institutional collections, The Path to Paradise will feature approximately 45 of Judith Schaechter’s stained-glass panels along with a selection of related drawings and process material.*
*Some of the works in this exhibition contain images of nudity, sexual assault, and violence.
Judith Schaechter (b. 1961) has stretched the medium of stained glass into a potent and incisive art form for the 21st century, boldly paving her path in the diverse arena of contemporary art. Her work is represented in over a dozen museums including the Museum of Art and Design, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Toledo Museum of Art, and in major exhibitions around the world. In addition, through her extensive teaching, she has furthered her influence on her peers and younger generations of artists. Her awards include two NEA Visual Artists’ Fellowships, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship Award, a USA Artists Rockefeller Fellow, and an American Craft Council College of Fellows Award.
The Art Center’s presentation will be accompanied by an exhibition in the John Brady print gallery of works selected by Judith Schaecther and Curatorial Manager Laura Burkhalter.
Selected Works from The Path to Paradise
Support Provided By
Lead support for The Path to Paradise: Judith Schaechter’s Stained-Glass Art is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation, with additional funding from the Gallery Council of the Memorial Art Gallery, the Rubens Family Foundation, Pamela Miller Ness and Paul Marc Ness, Corning Incorporated Foundation and the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass. The exhibition is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Additional gifts are provided by Marion Swett Robinson, Dennis and Mary Buchan, Jim and Marguerite Quinn, the Holmes Family Foundation and an anonymous donor.
The exhibition is also made possible by the Robert L. and Mary L. Sproull Fund, the Grant Holcomb Endowment, the Margaret Davis Friedlich and Alan and Sylvia Davis Memorial Fund, the Irving and Essie Germanow Fund, the Kayser Fund and the Robert A. and Maureen S. Dobies Endowment Fund.
