Judith Thorpe
Department Head, Professor of Photography
MFA, University of Colorado at Boulder
judith.thorpe@uconn.edu
 

Thorpe’s art is influenced by her life in Colorado where she lived for thirty-four years. The sunsets affected her sense of color and brought solace to her as a child. At the age of five she decided to be a photographer. She began the formal study and practice of the medium when she was twenty-two years old. At twenty-nine she returned to school and received an MFA in Photography from the University of Colorado. Since then she has been at Visual Studies Workshop, Society for Photographic Education, University of New Mexico, University of Colorado, Tyler School of Art, and the University of Connecticut.

Her photographs have been exhibited at the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT, the International Fine Art Fair at the Seventh Avenue Armory in New York City, ArtForms Gallery in Philadelphia, Randolph Street Gallery in Chicago, Nexus Contemporary Art Center and the Atlanta Gallery of Photography in Atlanta, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the Jane H. Baum Gallery in New York, the Graham Gallery in Albuquerque, and the Ginny Williams Gallery in Denver. Her work is in the collections of the New Britain Museum of American Art, Polaroid International Collection, Atlanta High Museum of Art, and the Colorado Collection at the University of Colorado.

Her photographs reflect her interest in the female body as it ages and as it is viewed with a parallel interest in the transformation of dying vegetation in still life form. Her work is based in traditional darkroom processes, Polaroid materials, and digital technologies.