Judy Ledgerwood

Judy Ledgerwood 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. Her work, such as "Tumbling Spectrum #1," reflects this blend of abstract art with craft traditions, challenging the traditional exclusion of such practices from the realm of "heroic" abstraction.