Judy Jashinsky

Jashinsky is a painter and installation artists whose projects are based on historical themes, is almost neoclassical, but with a modern twist or two. The Washington artist often works on cycles of paintings related to a single theme, such as her study of the life of 17th-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi, who has become a rallying point for feminist artists. Jashinsky's imaginings have inspired dozens of paintings, drawings, prints, "lost" letters and a video. Works from these projects are in the collections of the National Gallery of Art and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The painter was all but forgotten until feminist art historians began resurrecting fragments of her life in the 1970s.