Jody Mussoff
Jody Mussoff | |
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| Born | 1952 (age 73–74) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Carnegie-Mellon University Corcoran College of Art and Design |
| Known for | ceramic arts |
Jody Mussoff (born 1952 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American ceramist and artist, living in Virginia.
Biography
[edit]Mussoff was born in 1952 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[1] She received her art training at Carnegie-Mellon University and the Corcoran College of Art and Design. Her work was included in the exhibition Graphic Masters III, held at the Smithsonian Institution's American Art Museum in 2010.[2]
Work
[edit]Mussoff's brightly colored drawings[3] represent people and animals from her imagination. She uses a cross-hatching technique, and leaves much of the background blank. Her ceramics are earthenware, also brightly colored, decorated with people and animals. There is humor and a surrealistic quality to her drawings and ceramics.[4] In 2025 her work was included in the major 19-venue survey exhibition "Women Artists of the DMV"[5], curated by F. Lennox Campello.
Critical reception
[edit]Mossoff's drawings have been described by The Washington Post as "technically brilliant",[3] while The Orlando Sentinel observed that her drawing's richly colored skin again stands out, although here to more quirkily psychological effect."[6]
The Baltimore Sun described her drawings as having a "degree of understated humor that keeps the message from becoming heavy-handed."[7]
Collections
[edit]Mussoff's work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art's Corcoran Collection,[8] the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,[9] the Princeton University Art Museum[10] Smithsonian American Art Museum,[1] University of Maryland,[11] the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts[12] Yale University Art Gallery,[13] the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Kunsthalle Nürnberg, and the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts.[2]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Jody Mussoff". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- 1 2 "Jody Mussoff—Graphic Master – Smithsonian Libraries / Unbound". Retrieved 2020-09-26.
- 1 2 Protzman, Ferdinand (1996-06-01). "JODY MUSSOFF, FIGURING IT ALL OUT". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
- ↑ "Jody Mussoff". Gargoyle Magazine. 2024-09-29. Retrieved 2026-02-21.
- ↑ Daily, Laura Ruby The Northern Virginia (2025-10-16). "Expansive exhibit features work of local women artists". The Northern Virginia Daily. Retrieved 2026-02-21.
- ↑ Twardy, Chuck (1990-09-09). "'FACES AND PLACES': PICTURES WITHOUT THE FRAME OF CONTEXT". OrlandoSentinel.com. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
- ↑ Dorsey, John (31 December 1994). "Mussoff's drawings speak quietly on life". baltimoresun.com. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
- ↑ "Self-Portrait". National Gallery of Art. 1980. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ↑ "Collection Search". Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
- ↑ "Jody Mussoff | Princeton University Art Museum". artmuseum.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-07.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "Jody Mussoff | University of Maryland Art Gallery". www.artgallery.umd.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
- ↑ "Jody Mussoff, "Pencil" (1995)". PAFA - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 2015-11-06. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
- ↑ "Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 2011" (PDF). Yale University Art Gallery. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ↑ "Clara: Database of Women Artists". Archived from the original on 2011-10-09. Retrieved 2011-07-04.
- ↑ "American Art Museum - Collections". Retrieved 2011-07-04.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ Art and Artist Files in the Smithsonian Libraries Collections
External links
[edit]- Mussoff's Drawings Speak Quietly on Life
- Go Figure: Representing the Representational at Maryland Art Place
- Representative Offerings, By Pamela Murray Winters
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- Artists from Maryland
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- Corcoran School of the Arts and Design alumni
- Living people
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- 20th-century American women artists
- 21st-century American women artists
- 21st-century American ceramists
- Artists from Washington, D.C.
- Ceramists from Virginia