Sign up to receive the best in fashion, art and film from the W editors. Rainer Judd wears Alexander McQueen dress; Van Cleef & Arpels gold earrings “Oh! Courtney Thorne-Smith. A very solitary person.” When he died, she felt she had lost her best friend, her “tether to the planet.”But when her father died, a friend of his gave her advice that served only to confuse her, plunging her into self- doubt that would plague her for the coming years. Judd describes recurring themes in her work as ” transitioning away from oppression through creativity.” Once the foundation started, there was a feeling for a long time that she had to always be available. My brother was really good at drawing, but I felt like I couldn’t draw. Until SoHo changed the rules, artists tended to live in one building and work in another; lofts dissolved the border between domestic and studio space and made both of them larger. Nobody else. Judd says the irony of the short and her upcoming feature is that she doesn’t really remember that time in her life very well, she was too young.But if her memory falls short, her commitment to researching for the feature version of the short does not. A friend recently reminded her that as Donald Judd’s daughter, she is as much a part of his legacy as his work is.Yet there has always been an undeniable tug-of-war. She is the daughter of Donald Judd, one of the most significant American artists of the post-war period, recognised for his groundbreaking achievements in art, architecture and design – an exhibition of whose work will open at the Though it was a label he strongly objected to, Judd is regarded as the leading international exponent of As simple as his work may have appeared it could be incredibly bold: between 1980 and 1984 he installed a series of 15 giant empty concrete boxes in the grassland of Judd was also the pioneer of loft living in New York’s SoHo, converting a five-storey cast-iron former factory, Rainer’s screenplay is inspired by the period when, in 1977, Judd and her mother – Julie Finch, a dancer – separated in acrimonious fashion, and her father took Rainer, aged six, and Flavin, nine, from New York to live in Marfa. I was so sure that I wanted to go to acting school and film school that I never really wanted to take art classes. 'I don’t think I have ever been asked that question,’ she says. Between her home in Hudson – she recently held a seat on the town council – and a “sparse” New York apartment on a shady West Village street, the multi-talented filmmaker has crafted a life for herself far from the ubiquitous presence of her father, minimalist master Donald Judd, whose work resides in the art meccas of Marfa, Texas and Soho, Manhattan.After a childhood where she was “suddenly whisked away on a plane” to Texas at the age of 6 by her dad after her parents painful and prolonged split, Rainer and her older brother Flavin returned to New York in their mid-teens to finish high school. Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show.

'I didn’t make anything to shake up the system.’ She laughs when I ask whether she had ambitions to be an artist as a child. Cause you don’t know why you’re making it and then you realize where it comes from.” She says that the “spirals are getting tighter in her work,” she is accessing her subconscious more, becoming more honest.A drawing Judd made as a child is revealingly titled Tug of War. “You’re given dreams for a reason,” she says frequently. She refers to him as Dad as often as she calls him Don, and she speaks of him respectfully and affectionately but without piety. “includes 85 people now talking about Don, the NY scene, Soho, Max’s Kansas City, Brice Marden talking about the first time he ever saw a Barnett Newman painting…”“It’s a time consuming project but it’s important,” and she likes getting people to talk. But perhaps Judd anticipated that, too: When he died, in 1994, he left a directive to establish a foundation dedicated to preserving his art and the buildings where he made and installed it, alongside the work of his friends and colleagues: 15 properties in Marfa, Texas; and 101 Spring. Vulgar, hateful or sexually explicit comments have no place on this site.

And what of the “silent elephant in the room”— that she would always be measured against her father’s work. Hilary Swank. People say, ‘You must have been such a controlled child.’ But I don’t remember it being that way at all.”As for Judd, Rainer has spent almost as much time with her father since he died as she did when he was alive.
But when you ask his daughter, a filmmaker by occupation, as well as an actress, artist, photographer, poet—and even songwriter—how she interprets it, her answer is simply, “Its important to have a sense of humor.”Talented, intelligent and soft-spoken, a rare artist seeming to lack any signs of inflated ego, Rainer Judd today can look you in the eye, tell you “all challenges in life can be a blessing,” and mean it. I didn’t think it was my territory.
When I meet her at her home in Hudson, upstate New York, she shows me her latest journal – 'book number 31’ – which she began a few nights ago, aged 42. 'He got two stars, three stars, depending on how much love I felt for him that day,’ she says. As we tromped up and down the stairs, Rainer grimaced every time we came across an exit sign, and she went on a quiet rant about the endless demands of New York City’s building codes, which, among other things, required the removal of a turn-of-the-century spiral staircase.Still, the place is something to behold, a revolution frozen in time.

“He had a temper, so he would get very hurt; he would react as if he’d been betrayed,” she concedes. Judd married dancer Julie Finch in 1964 (later divorced) and together they had two children, son Flavin Starbuck Judd (born 1968) and daughter Rainer Yingling Judd (born 1970). Sometimes it feels like a museum with a bedroom on top and sometimes like an apartment with a museum underneath. 'Nothing was ever too goofy to ask about,’ she says. Sic transit gloria New York.


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