Judith Allen

Judith Allen-Efstathiou lives six months of each year in Athens, Greece and six months in Portland, Maine. Her commute between cultures informs her work and may explain her interest in what people carry with them from place to place (Contents of Her Handbags series). Her concern for the environment and interest in the work of women are both reflected in her hybrid paintings: The Healers. Recently she has embarked on a series of collaborative Dialogue projects with women in Oasis Siwa, Egypt and women inmates at Koridalos prison Athens, Greece. This interest in collaboration has also led her to collaborative work with Eirene Efstathiou: on a commission, an exhibition and this web site. A graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Judith exhibits her work in Greece and the United States and has participated in over 30 international printmaking biennials around the world.

EDUCATION
University of LaVerne, California, MED, 1992
Tufts University & the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass. BFA 1989

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 _ Here and There, Whitney Art Works, Portland Maine.
2010 Jill Yakas Gallery, Athens, Greece
2006 New Works Whitney Art Works, Portland, Maine, two person exhibition
2003 Gathering Tiers Jill Yakas Gallery, Athens, Greece
2001 What I found in My Mother's House. Hay Gallery, Portland, Maine
1995 New Works, Jill Yakas Gallery, Athens, Greece
1992 Shards Prothiki Gallery, Athens, Greece
1990 New Works, Jill Yakas Gallery, Athens, Greece
1984 Gallery Zalokosta 7, Athens, Greece
1983 Havens Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
1982 Contemporary Graphics, Athens, Greece
1980 Contemporary Graphics, Athens, Greece
1978 Writing on the Wall, Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece
1976 Graffiti, recent Sculpture Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, New York

INTERNATIONAL BIENNIALS & SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Upside Down, Benaki Museum, Piraeus St Anex and Kolonaki, Athens, Greece
Flower Power, Center for Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine
Salonica Biennial, parallel exhibition: Survey of Greek Printmaking, Salonica, Greece
New Acquisitions, University of New England Gallery, Portland, Maine

2008 Center for Contemprary Art Biennial, Rockport, Maine
First Impressions, Saco Museum, Saco Maine
On Paper, Paper New England, Hartford, Connecticut
Panorama of Greek Printmaking, Technopouli, Athens, Greece

2007 & Wax, Whitney Artworks, Portland, Maine
Tiny, Whitney Art Works, Portland Maine
Up Close, Center for Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine

2006 Maine Print Project: a Servey of Maine Printmakers, 1980 - 2005,
Center for Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine
Innovative Techniques/Alternative Srufaces in Printmaking, University of Maine, Augusta
Peregrine Press Celebrating 15 Years, Saco Museum, Saco, Maine

2005 Accord George Marshall Store Gallery, York, Maine
Art of the Print, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, Maine

2004 Jill Yakas Gallery, Athens, Greece
Peregrine Press at Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, Maine

2003 AFI at Kleisthenous, Kleisthenous Gallery, Athens, Greece
Ornament as Content, Hay Gallery Portland, Maine.

2002 AFI in the Round, Ibrahim Han Mosque, Rethymno, Crete, Greece
Small Works, 80 Washington Square East Gallery, NY, New York
Saco Museum, Still Lives a Tradition Retold, Saco, Maine.

2001 International Exhibition of Myth and Vision, Athens, Greece

2000 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York, New York
AFI 20 Years, Terrakotta Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
AFI New Works, Monohoros, Athens, Greece

1999 Between the Muse Gallery, Rockland, Maine.

1998 Britain & Greece Festival, Jill Yakas Gallery, Athens, Greece

1997 International Triennial for Graphic Prints, Gretchen, Switzerland
Piraeus St. Metamorphosis of an Industrial Landscape. Athens, Gr.

1996 German International Exhibition of Graphic Art, Frechen, Germany
Biella International Biennial of Prints, Biella, Italy
4th Biennial of Graphic Art, Beograd, Yugoslavia.

1995 International Exhibition of Electronic Prints, Brighton, England
7th R.O.C. International Biennial Print, Taipei, Taiwan.

1993 German International Exhibition of Graphic Art, Frechen, Germany
International Triennial of Pattern, Budapest, Hungary
International Print Biennial, Maastricht, Netherlands.

1992 Epekendro Gallery, Patras, Greece.

1991 European Large Format Printmaking, Dublin, Ireland.

1990 German International Exhibition of Graphic Art, Frechen, Germany
European Biennial of Prints, Luxembourg.
Diekirch Biennial of European Printmaking, Switzerland
Biella International Biennial of Prints, Biella, Italy
International Mini Gravat, Cadaques, Spain

1989 Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Prints, Bopal, India
Norwegian International Print Biennial, Fredrikstad, Norway

1988 6th Seoul International Print Biennial, Seoul, Korea
5th Biennial of European Graphic Art, Heidelberg, Germany.

1987 Ljubljana International Graphics Biennial, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
3rd R.O.C. International Biennial Print Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan.

1986 Cracow International Print Biennial, Cracow, Poland.

1985 Listowel International Print Biennial, Kerry, Ireland
International Mini Gravat, Cadaques, Spain.

1984 Cracow International Print Biennial, Cracow, Poland
Norwegian International Print Biennial, Fredrikstad, Norway.

1983 Ljubljana International Graphics Biennial, Ljubljanna, Yugoslavia.

1981 Contemporary Graphics gallery, Athens, Greece
Kauffman Fine Art, Houston, Texas
Kornblatt Gallery, Wasington DC

1980 Thomas Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

AWARDS & HONORS
2004 Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission with support from National Endowment for the Arts
2001 International Exhibition of Myth and Vision, Athens, Greece, Second Prize in Painting
1986 Cracow International Print Biennial, Purchase Prize from Museum National Warsaw
1984 Norwegian International Print Biennial, Fredrikstad, Norway, Honorable Mention
1975 Chaloner Prize Grant, Chaloner Prize Foundation, New York, USA
1968 Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Fellowship, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS, ARTICLES & REVIEWS
Elena Sarni "Here and There" Artscope (March/April 2010)
Daniel Kany "'Here and There'Everywhere Puts Perspective in its Place", Maine Sunday Telegram, March 7 2010
Upside Down, Afi at the Benaki Museum, Text by Lauren Fensterstock,
published by the Benaki Museum, Athens Greece(2009)
Maine Printmaking 1800-2005: The Imprint of Place by David P. Becker,
published by The Center for Maine Contemporary of Art and Down East Books. (2006)
Ian Paige. "Family Affair" The Portland Phoenix (March 17 2006)
Kathy Hayden. "Your Vision or Mine" Port City Life (March/April 2006)
Chris Thompson. Review Art New England (July/Aug. 2006)
Chris Thompson. "Mining Memory" The Portland Phoenix (April 13 2001)
Words and Images, Maine's annual compendium (2000 and 2003)

COLLECTIONS
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine.
Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, Maine.
Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin, Ireland.
Museum National, Warsaw, Poland.
Museum National of Silesia, Poland
Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan CT
New York City Public Library, New York, New York
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
University of New England Museum of Art, Maine
Michael Zikha collection, Maine
Konstantinos Papageorgiou, Athens, Greece

COMMISSIONS / PUBLIC ART
2005 Dialogue, Maine Percent for Art Commission, series of 8 paintings on panels for Biddeford Middle School in collaboration with Eirene Efstathiou

2004 Republic Crane. Charlotte, North Carolina. Xerox lithograph on 12 panels 64" x 80

2004 Raycap. Athens Greece, Collage on two gauze panels each 85" x 36"

1995 Kalimera Kriti Hotel, Ay Nikolaou, Crete. 80 etchings

1993 Epeirotiki Shipping Lines, Piraeus, Greece, 28 etchings

1992 Dane Lines, Piraeus, Greece, 11 collages for the ship Patmos
Aegean Cruises, Piraeus , Greece, 4 collages for the ship Jason

1991 Minoan Lines, Piraeus, Greece, 12 collages for the ship El Greco
Minoan Lines, Piraeus, Greece 9 collages for the ship Daedalos

1990 Minoan Lines, Piraeus , Greece, 7 collages for the ship Ariadne
Dane Lines, Piraeus , Greece, 22 collages for the ship Rhodos

1989 Minoan Lines, Piraeus, Greece 12 collages for the ship King Minos

TEACHING
University of Southern Maine, Adjunct Printmaking Instructor, 2004 to the present
Maine College of Art, Continuing Studies, Printmaking Instructor, 2001 to the present
University of Maine, Augusta, Adjunct Printmaking & Drawing Instructor, 2000-2001
The University of Oregon Semester in Greece Program, in affiliation with the Athens Center, Drawing instructor,
American Community Schools of Athens, Greece International Baccalaureate Art/Design Instructor 1989-1998