JUDITH KAZDYM LEEDS is a internationally recognized award winning artist whose paintings reflects her unique and colorful view of our daily life, sometimes with humor and sometimes with pathos.
Judith paints portraits, still lives and landscapes in both pastels and oils. Her work has garnered many awards, medals and honors some of which are: Signature Member of The Pastel Society of America, International Association of Pastel Societies' Master Circle, many awards from the Portrait Society of America, many awards from Pastel Journal's international PASTEL 100, Finalist in Artist's Magazine Annual Competition, Signature Status from the Pastel Society of the West Coast, Distinguished Pastelist from the Pastel Society of NJ, a Finalist in Richeson75 International Exhibition, Audubon Artist's 70th Annual Silver Medal of Honor and numerous others. She is an Elected Member of The Salmagundi Club, NYC, NY.
Her work has appeared in many museum exhibitions throughout the US. Articles about her have been appeared in Pastel Today, Realism Today, How to Pastel and others.
She gives workshops and demonstrations in person and virtually throughout the United States and internationally.
Judith was formally an internationally known award winning graphic artist who created over 3,000 hard covered book jackets including THE COLOR PURPLE chosen by LITERARY HUB as one of the 25 MOST ICONIC BOOK COVERS IN HISTORY.
PRINT MAGAZINE included her work in their retrospective FORTY YEARS OF INNOVATIVE TYPOGRAPHY IN AMERICA.
Judith graduated cum laude from Boston University's School of Fine Arts, served for six years as Program Director on the Board of the Pastel Society of New Jersey and was Awards Chair for Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, NYC.
Her work can be found in both public and private collections.
Her landscapes can be seen in The Lupine Gallery, Monhegan Island, Maine