Judith Burks is a New Orleans artist working primarily in encaustic. Her recent paintings have focused on images of her former Ninth Ward students after Hurricane Katrina.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Red Dress/Ruined Street
2007, encaustic on panel, 16" x 20"
Recipient of the Director's Award at the Encaustic Works
Sixth International Biennial Exhibition in 2007, juried by Joan Snyder