Dr. Judy Schavrien, artist and psychotherapist, lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Born and bred in New York City, she studied in Chicago with the late Harold Rosenberg, art critic for The New Yorker and advocate for the Abstract Expressionists. She considers herself a Figurative Expressionist and puts the accent on a painter's mark, as if nerves were unsheathed—those of the artist and of the subject. The marks often convey personal and political dislocation. She prizes the painters of soul as well—Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Alice Neel. Soul is the grounding.
With more than fifteen national and international prizes for her work in the arts, she has been featured in cover stories and anthologies. Most recently she co-created the puppet scenery for the documentary called Voices: Our Stories Before Roe v. Wade, which was accepted in nine international film festivals, winning four "best" awards.
Books: what rhymes with cancer?; Alice at the Rabbithole Cafe; Everything Voluptuous; Shot Awake—A Painter's Memoir; The New Ancient Greeks; Life Interrupted; Face to Face; People Above All; and There'll Be No Dying Here—Portraits Through Time.
Included in these Anthologies: Embracing the Reaper (Journal of Transpersonal Psychology); New Lesbian Writing; Amazon Allstars.