Judith Belzer

Judith Belzer (born 1956) is an American painter based in Berkeley, California. She is known for semi-abstract oils and watercolors depicting invented landscapes in which the natural and built worlds collide and adjoin. These hybrid scenes have been described as dynamic, distanced but expressive, and non-prescriptive—more provocative than overtly critical observations of environmental change. In an Artillery review Barbara Morris wrote, "Belzer explores the edge where the natural world interfaces with the industrialized landscape, emphasizing how rhythms and patterns found in nature are echoed in the structures that man has created … [and] conveying our anxious energy as we struggle for equilibrium in a world permanently altered by our actions."

Belzer has exhibited at venues including the Museum of Arts and Design (New York), Berkeley Art Museum (BAMPFA), Nevada Museum of Art, Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco), and Mills College Art Museum. Her work belongs to the permanent collections of BAMPFA and the Nevada Museum of Art. In 2014, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Belzer is married to journalist and author Michael Pollan.