Judith Allen-Efstathiou
May Roots (2020)
Judith Allen-Efstathiou comes from a family of 5 generations of Maine woman artists. She studied sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with a BFA from Tufts University. A fellowship for one year of international travel from the Boston Museum led to a three-decade stay in Athens, Greece, where she became a naturalized Greek citizen. Since 2000, she has spent six months a year living in Portland, Maine and six months in Greece. In Maine her relief sculptures in acid-cut, copper, salvaged from the Maine State House dome, hang permanently in the Maine State House(2017), in the Waldo Justice Center (2019), Belfast, Caribou Community School (2020), and the South Portland Middle School (2023). In Greece her artwork has been exhibited at the Benaki Museum, Athens in 2009, 2014, 2022, and 2023. Mapping the Walk, her 12-year-long botanical drawing project in support of historic preservation of an ancient Greek footpath, was published by Kapon Editions, Athens (2022). Thirty-six of these drawings are in the permanent collection of the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies. Athens. Selections of her work exhibited in Diagonal Latitudes was exhibited at the Benaki Museum, Athens (2023) and Martinos Art, Athens (2020). She taught printmaking at the University of Southern Maine and Maine College of Art. She is a member of Peregrine Press in Portland, and the artist collective AFI in Greece.
