Judith Bernstein

Judith Bernstein is an American feminist artist known for her provocative and politically charged works that employ phallic imagery, scrawled text, and aggressive mark-making to challenge patriarchal power structures. Emerging from the feminist art movement of the 1970s, she gained notoriety for her large-scale charcoal drawings featuring screw imagery as a metaphor for war, violence, and male dominance. Her work was censored from the 1972 'C7000' exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, an act that only amplified her reputation as a fearless and uncompromising voice in contemporary art.