Mary Judge is an artist known for her complex yet reductive works on paper, cast concrete sculptures, and paintings. Raised in rural New Jersey, she earned her BFA from Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and completed her MFA at Tyler School of Art, graduating from its Rome campus.
Judge’s artistic development was profoundly shaped by formative experiences and frequent travel in Italy. There, she established deep connections to contemporary Italian art and to artisans in the Umbria region. She worked for several years with the Grazia factory in Deruta, producing paintings for the design market while maintaining an independent fine art studio practice. Her first pivotal New York exhibition was Selections ’97 at The Drawing Center, where she presented her distinctive spolvero drawings—derived from a traditional technique used to transfer images in fresco painting and ceramic decoration.
Her work is process-driven and often described as post-minimal. Formally structured yet sensuous, the works suggest hidden geometries and chance effects that emerge through indirect methods.
Judge’s work is held in numerous public and private collections, including The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Fogg Art Museum, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The British Museum, The Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Cassino, Italy.
Her relationship with Italy continues through a residence in Nardò, a baroque town on the Ionian Sea in the Puglia region.
She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.