
Yummy Yum, 2021
Oil on canvas
68 x 48 inches
Swingtime, 2021
Oil on canvas
60 x 50 inches
The Smell of Rain and Mondays, 2012
Oil on canvas
96 x 80 inches
Variations on a Square (Yellow, Blue, Black), 2020
Glazed ceramic
19 x 17.5 x 15 inches
Grandma’s Flower Garden, 2006
Acrylic Mica, acrylic gouache, and oil on canvas
84 x 120 inches
Wonder Boy, 2015
Oil on canvas
84 x 60 inches
Double Gourd (Primary Triad), 2020
Glazed ceramic
17.5 x 14 x 14 inches
Days End, 2018
Oil on canvas
36 x 30 inches
Oval with Black Flowers, 2020
Glazed ceramic
19.5 x 18 x 14 inches
Brain Fever, 2018
Oil on canvas
60 x 50 inches
Wabi-sabi Skinny Square, 2021
Glazed Ceramic and gold resin
25 x 8 x 25 inches
Super Girl, 2021
Oil on canvas
44 x 38 inches
Double Gourd (Red/Orage Yellow/Blue), 2020
Glazed ceramic
17.5 x 21.5 x 20 inches
Contrapposto, 2021
Glazed ceramic
21 x 9 x 8
Untitled, 2020
Glazed ceramic
4.25 x 2.75 x 2.75 inches
Untitled, 2020
Glazed ceramic
5 x 4 x 4 inches
Eye Opener, 2018
Oil on canvas
36 x 30 inches
Judy Ledgerwood (b. Indiana, 1959) is a painter whose canvases and wall painting installations confront the history of abstract painting with traditions in the decorative arts. Her compositions consist of motifs derived from symbolic shapes associated with Paleo and Neolithic Goddess cultures throughout Europe. The broader vocabulary of shapes is comprised of circles, quatrefoils, and seed-like shapes organized within triangles and chevrons that are womanly ciphers symbolic of feminine power.
Judy Ledgerwood received a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati and a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has held numerous solo exhibitions, most recently at The Graham Foundation and Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX, Hausler Contemporary, Austria, and Rhona Hoffman Gallery, among many others. She is the recipient of several awards including The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award, an Artadia Award, a Tiffany Award in the Visual Arts, a National Endowment for the Arts Award, and an Illinois Art Council Award. Judy Ledgerwood's work is included in prominent public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Milwaukee Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen Switzerland, among others. In 2015, Ledgerwood was commissioned by the Embassy of the United States in Vientiane, Laos to create a monumental site-specific painting, and in 2018 she became the first Chicago-based artist to create an installation for the Art Institute's Bluhm Family Terrace.
What distinguishes Ledgerwood’s work from the earlier generation of women artists working in the domain of Pattern and Decoration is its bluntness and humor.
Judy Ledgerwood: Sunny @ Denny Gallery
In her exhibition Sunny, Judy Ledgerwood has bold intentions. She began working on the paintings last January when she was searching for color during many gray days
There's been a resurgence in recent years of artists using materials like textiles and ceramics in siting domestic settings as creative spaces, a nod to the influence of the 1970s Pattern and Decoration (P & D) art movement.
LA Times Review of Judy Ledgerwood's current exhibition at 1301PE in Los Angeles.
Review of Far From the Tree at Rhona Hoffman Gallery.
Review of Far From the Tree at Rhona Hoffman Gallery.
Interview with the artist by Laura M. Mettam.
Review of Chromatic Paintings for Chicago and Blob Paintings at Rhona Hoffman Gallery.