About Time, Judith and Richard Wilde

Judith and Richard Wilde: It’s About Time
September 26 – October 31, 2026
A two-person Exhibition,  Judith Wilde, Collages  Richard Wilde, Photographs

Two distinct creative voices come together in It’s About Time, an exhibition exploring memory, visual language, experimentation, and the unexpected connections that emerge through image-making. Playful, layered, and thought-provoking, the work invites viewers to slow down, look closely, and discover their own meanings.

Judith Wilde explores the complexity of time as it pertains to multiple facets of life. Using collage and pencil as the medium, working mostly in a small 8” by 8” format, Judith uses the face of a clock as a point of departure in each collage. In some collages she uses antique clock faces as a ground on which to explore her ideas. Each collage challenges the viewers’ attention concerning the mysteries of time.

Richard Wilde uses photography as a medium to explore and document the impact of nature and time on World War I and World War II cast iron military toy soldiers, (2 ¼” high, whose heads measure 1/4” in size). Seeing these images enlarged and at times, human size speaks of the inevitable deterioration that time yields yet gives a new life to the erosion of the paint on each soldier which tells the story of the figures’ lifetime, as a toy, and in some cases echoes the horrors of war. Richard’s photos are also vintage toys of Native Americans, Boy Scouts and Amish figures, as well as antique Chocolate Molds.

There is a yin and yang contrast between the two artists’ work, in that Judith’s work is playful, fanciful and speaks to the uplifting expressions of specific moments in time. On the other hand, Richard’s work, which can be frightful at times, encompasses an ominous beauty. Together, they have explored two essential worlds suggesting a more encompassing look at the vagaries of time.

We both have had the distinct impression that in the creation of these works, when we were truly present to the act of making art, time stopped.

JUDITH WILDE, Professor Emeritus from Kingsborough Community College where she founded and directed the Graphic Design and Illustration Program for twenty-five years. Judith has also taught design and collage courses at the School of Visual Arts and is a visiting faculty member in the MFA Program at Marywood University, Scranton, PA.
She is a painter, collagist, assemblage artist, poet and co-director of experimental image making workshops throughout the United States and around the world.
Judith has received many grants and awards, one of which was Teacher of the Year at Kingsborough Community College. Work from one of the grants became part of an off Broadway play.
Judith has co-authored several books on design with Richard Wilde and has exhibited in various gallery and museum exhibitions. She is now inspired by her four grandchildren, all of whom are budding artists and from the beauty of the Hudson Valley where she currently lives, works and meditates daily by the pond in her backyard.

RICHARD WILDE, Professor Emeritus from the School of Visual Arts, whose teaching career spans over 50 years, is also the Founding Chair of the BFA Graphic Design department and Chair of the BFA Advertising department as well. At the same time he has worked as an Art Director and Designer, working collaboratively with his wife, Judith.
Richard has won hundreds of design, advertising, and educational awards and has been inducted into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame and the One Club Hall of Fame. He has the distinction of being one of three individuals to be inducted into both Halls of Fame.
Over the years, his students have garnered thousands of awards and accolades of which he feels is his crowning achievement.