Lives in: Chevy Chase, Maryland

Website: www.judithbenderson.com

Media and subjects: acrylic painting; mythogenic/abstract

Why you joined MAA:  I joined MAA to join a community of artists.

Artist Biography:  I’ve been a painter my entire adult life, including before I went to law school.   Someone recently described my work as mythogenic, and I guess it does connect back to a childhood obsession with Greek mythology.  But my work is evolving and goes back and forth between these more representational fantasies and purely abstract.

I exhibit in the Washington, DC area, most recently at American University’s Katzen Arts Center in both the AU Museum and the Katzen Rotunda, at DC Arts Center, and at BlackRock Center for the Arts, and previously participated in public art projects including DC Party Animals and Color Field Remix.   I was the Cultural Property Law Enforcement Coordinator at the Justice Department with responsibility in area of law enforcement for art theft and artifact smuggling, as well as doing appraisals for the FBI Art Theft Program.  

I have a JD from American University, a BA and an MFA from George Washington University, and am certified in fine and decorative arts appraisal.   In 2018, I organized the Washington Women’s Arts Center  (WWAC)  retrospective, Latitude, at the American University Museum.   In the 1970s and 80s, I was a board member and Managing Director of WWAC.   And in 1986,  I was a founding board member of Rockville Arts Place, now VisArts, and later served as co-President. 

I also invite you to enjoy several of my other works.