13 Facts About Judy Ledgerwood

Judy Ledgerwood was born on 1959 and is an American abstract painter and educator, who has been based in Chicago.

Judy Ledgerwood's work confronts fundamental, historical and contemporary issues in abstract painting within a largely high-modernist vocabulary that she often complicates and subverts.

Judy Ledgerwood has exhibited widely at galleries throughout the United States and in Europe and at institutions including the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Smart Museum of Art, and Renaissance Society.

Judy Ledgerwood's work belongs to the public art collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Art Institute of Chicago, and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, among others; a monograph, Judy Ledgerwood, was published in 2009 by Hatje Cantz.

Judy Ledgerwood was born in 1959 in the small farming community of Brazil, Indiana and identified as an artist from an early age.

Judy Ledgerwood was part of a conceptually oriented group of Chicago artists that embraced theory and a global, rather than regional, view of the art world, distinguishing them from the earlier Chicago Imagists.

Judy Ledgerwood has served as the department's Director of Graduate Studies and is the Alice Welsh Skilling Professor of Art.

Judy Ledgerwood has continued to exhibit widely, at galleries including Hausler Contemporary, Tracy Williams Ltd.

Maureen Sherlock suggested that Judy Ledgerwood's canvasses restaged domestic, "demure and private gestures" in powerful, public form through their highly charged synthetic colors, which evoked female domains, and intimate markmaking, which deflated the mythic power and profundity of Abstract-Expressionist gesture.

In 1999, Judy Ledgerwood presented "Cold Days", a body of work specifically created to interact with the changing winter light that would flood its January exhibition at Chicago's Renaissance Society.

Judy Ledgerwood created variations on Chromatic Patterns in immense, site-specific installations at the Smart Museum of Art, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and Art Institute of Chicago.

In 2010s, Judy Ledgerwood has increasingly introduced three-dimensional elements into her practice.

Judy Ledgerwood's work belongs to the public art collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Kunstmuseum St Gallen, Hammer Museum, Chicago Public Library, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, and Smart Museum of Art, among others.