2014: Judy Ledgerwood @ Smart Museum

Above: Artist talk with Judy Ledgerwood and Christine Mehring, Smart Museum of Art, 2:00 PM, February 2, 2014.

Judy Ledgerwood
"Chromatic Patterns for the Smart Museum"
December 26, 2013 - Spring 2015
Curated by Jessica Moss, Associate Curator for Contemporary Art
The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art
University of Chicago
5550 S. Greenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637

http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/

http://www.rhoffmangallery.com/ 

"Chicago-based artist Judy Ledgerwood’s immense, site-specific wall painting for the Smart Museum is part of an ongoing series inspired by the energetic, asymmetrical rhythms of composer Morton Feldman’s 'Patterns in a Chromatic Field' (1981).  The painting is comprised of horizontal bands of boldly colored patterns—blue with bronze, fluorescent red with mint green, spring green with copper—that run across the large central wall in the Smart’s lobby. The work responds to both the soaring, symmetrical architecture of the space and, in its repeating patterns, the design of Louis Sullivan’s elevator screens for the Chicago Stock Exchange building (two of which are on view in the lobby).  The artist (with the help of an assistant) painted Chromatic Patterns by hand directly on the wall. The work, in the artist’s words, is made to 'hang tapestry-like' with drooping and irregular edges that contrast with the clean lines of the Museum’s modernist architecture."

"Chromatic Patterns is generously supported by the Efroymson Family Fund, the Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation, and Jack and Sandra P. Guthman."

Quotation above from: http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/judy-ledgerwood-chromatic-patterns/

A related exhibition runs concurrently at the Graham Foundation:

Judy Ledgerwood
"Chromatic Patterns for the Graham Foundation"
January 23 - April 5, 2014
The Graham Foundation
Madlener House
4 W. Burton Place
Chicago, IL

http://www.grahamfoundation.org/

Above: Artist Judy Ledgerwood with art historian Christine Mehring, 2:00 PM, February 2, 2014.

Above: Artist talk with Judy Ledgerwood, left, and Christine Mehring, right, 2:00 PM, February 2, 2014.

Above: Artist talk with Judy Ledgerwood and Christine Mehring, 2:00 PM, February 2, 2014.

Above: Artist talk with Judy Ledgerwood and Christine Mehring, 2:00 PM, February 2, 2014.

Above: Artist talk with Judy Ledgerwood and Christine Mehring, 2:00 PM, February 2, 2014.

Above: Artist Judy Ledgerwood, foreground,  "Chromatic Patterns for the Smart Museum," background.

Above: Smart Museum exterior; "State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970," October 3, 2013 – January 12, 2014.

Above: "Chromatic Patterns for the Smart Museum," on January 12, 2014.

Above:
Images (1-7) February 2, 2014;
Images (8-9) January 12, 2014;
Copyright Paul E. Germanos.