Judith Peck's sculptures are in approximately eighty public and private collections, including among many others, the American Art Collection of the Yale University Gallery and the Ghetto Fighters Museum in Israel. Outdoor works are installed at the West Palm Beach Florida Library; the Teaneck New Jersey Public Library; Tenafly, New Jersey High School; Ridgewood New Jersey Train Station and Jewish temples in New York and Maryland. Her work has been exhibited at the International Biennial of Art in Malta, the National Academy Galleries in New York, the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Pennsylvania Academy; the Detroit Institute; the New Jersey State Museum and at numerous universities including Yale, Columbia, Fordham, Adelphi, Montclair, and Rutgers. Review.

An exhibition of four life size steel sculptures, "Ladies of Steel," was mounted on Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 2001-2002. A 10-month exhibition of sixteen large sculptures was installed on the Robert Moses Plaza of Fordham University, Lincoln Center in New York, 2000. Several large works are currently on view in the Art Park at Clifton, New Jersey City Hall.

Invited commission proposals include, among others, models for the Ridgewood, New Jersey Train Station, Rutgers Law Library in Camden, New Jersey; New City Jail, New York; Somerset Financial Center, New Jersey; North Palm Beach Library, Florida; and the Saddle River Millenium, New Jersey.

Judith Peck is professor of Art at Ramapo College of New Jersey in Mahwah. She is author of the text, Sculpture as Experience: Working with Clay, Wire, Wax, Plaster, and Found Objects (Krause), Leap to the Sun: Learning through Dynamic Play (Prentice-Hall) and Art & Interaction (Ramapo College of New Jersey). Recent new books include; Smart Starts in the Arts: Fostering Intelligence, Creativity and Serenity in the Early Years; Art Activities for Mind and Imagination; and Artistic Crafts (Imagination Arts Publications).  Peck is referenced in Who's Who in American Art, the World's Who's Who of Women, and the Smithsonian Institute's publication, "Designing Public Art," published in conjunction with The National Museum of American Art, 1996.

Judith holds a doctoral degree from New York University and two masters degrees in Sculpture and Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University.  She studied sculpture at the Art Students League and the Sculpture Center in New York.


"Judith Peck sculpts at the wind wills - from carefully wrought beauty to wayward mischief."
The Record, New Jersey

Artist’s Statement:  My sculpture is about people. How they look, how they behave, how they endure hardship, and how they find the meaning, truths and joys of life.