A Vital Matters Voice: Judithe Hernández
Judithe
Hernández
Artist
BIOGRAPHY
Judithe Hernández first won acclaim as a member of the celebrated Chicano artist collective Los Four and as one of the few women of color who are recognized as seminal muralists of the Los Angeles Mural Movement of the 1970's. She is a graduate of Otis Art Institute and a student of the legendary artist Charles White. His influence and encouragement to pursue to social realism was critical to her later work. Like White, she shared a love of drawing which resulted in a studio practice dedicated to works on paper. L.A. Times Pulitzer Prize winning art critic, Christopher Knight, has written “Hernández is often referred to as a painter. Yet, like her late mentor Charles White, drawing represents her most powerful gift. Hernández draws like an important artist.” Over her 50+ year career, she has established a significant record of exhibitions/acquisitions of her work by major public institutions and private collections including: the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art; the National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
