Society for Contemporary Art Collectors Sale | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Society for Contemporary Art Collectors Sale | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Judy Ledgerwood
First Blush
Lot Closed
September 29, 02:08 PM GMT
Estimate
7,500 - 9,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
Judy Ledgerwood
b. 1959
First Blush
Signed and dated 2013 on verso.
encaustic on panel
16 x 16 x1 inches (40.64 by 40.64 by 2.54 cm.)
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Courtesy of the artist and Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Judy Ledgerwood is a painter whose canvases and wall painting installations confront the history of abstract painting. Her work considers domestically created decorative work made by women across cultures, and compositions consisting of motifs that are derived from symbolic shapes associated with Paleo and Neolithic Goddess cultures throughout Europe. The vocabulary of shapes featured in her work is comprised of circles, quatrefoils, and seed-like shapes organized within triangles and chevrons that she perceives as a womanly ciphers symbolic of feminine power.
Ledgerwood’s work has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen Switzerland, among many others. Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.