Judith Kapstein Brodsky (born 1933) is an American artist, curator, and author known for her contributions to feminist discourse in the arts.
Her feminist actions began early, in 1960 while at Tyler, where she helped found FOCUS, a festival celebrating women artists.
Presciently, the festival's success sowed discontent among male artists: “We got sued,” Brodsky recalls, “by a male artist who said he couldn’t get a show during that period because the galleries were only showing women.”[4] She was Chairperson of the Art Department at Beaver College, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania before coming to Rutgers University in 1978.
[9] Yet, as British feminist art historian Grizelda Pollock noted in her 1995 review at the time, the "triumph" of women's art in the book was not merely premature, as Pollock notes women artists 20 years after those celebrated in the book were still struggling for recognition; but also "smacks of the cold war triumphalism" prominent in the U.S. during the 1980-90s, and does not acknowledge the ways that feminist perspectives are themselves disputed within and by many of the works included.
Of particular note is a one-person exhibition of her work, Memoir of an Assimilated Family, at the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art (March 3, 2010 - July 30, 2010).