Art Collectors, Patrons and Galleries Take Note

Special Event Notice: Art Collectors, Patrons and Galleries Take Note

The Art Center Highland Park hosts a retrospective and sale of work by the late Judith Roth

“A rare opportunity”, that is how James M. Lynch, Executive Director of The Art Center Highland Park, describes the Judith Roth exhibit that just opened at their venue. “We were all saddened to hear that Judith passed away last February. Immediately people were talking about a retrospective to celebrate her great contributions and body of work. TACHP curator, Caren Helene Rudman, reached out to one of the family members offering, “to help carry on her legacy with an exhibit.”

“The family invited me to take a tour through Judith’s studio while they were in the process of cataloguing her work” said Rudman. “Since I knew Judith well, and since she’d taught at TACHP in the past, they thought we were an appropriate venue. For me to be allowed this kind of access was an honor, albeit a sad one.”

The Roth family, faced with an immense body of work, decided it was better to open up the collection to the public, to collectors and galleries, rather than store it where no one could see it. The exhibit spans a large range of her work, from signed working sketches to fully completed masterpieces, including several from her series on dancers, images that evoke the dedication, strain and even pain of professional ballet dancers.

The resulting exhibit, Judith Roth: A Life’s Work, is currently on display at The Art Center Highland Park, 1957 Sheridan Road, in Highland Park.

“The opportunity to broker the sale of this volume of work, this quality of art, is incredible, and we hope that every piece will be committed to a buyer by the end of the exhibit in January,” adds Rudman, “but we’ll only have scratched the surface. She was an amazing and prolific artist and this is a rare chance for collectors, or even those starting a collection, to own a piece by an arts icon, an incredibly revered talent, who had, as described by a friend, “a kind of joie de vivre: (she) wanted to do everything and know everything. Her spirit and enthusiasm brightened people's lives."

Until January 4, her art will brighten the lives of visitors to the exhibit currently at The Art Center Highland Park. For more information, www.theartcenterhp.org, or email info@theartcenterhp.org.

Exhibit dates: December 6, 2019 – January 4, 2020

Artist’s Reception Friday, December 13, 5:30-8PM. Wine and cheese reception, open to the public, free.