Valerie Jaudon

Valerie Jaudon
Born (1945-08-08) August 8, 1945 (age 79)
Greenville, Mississippi, U.S.
EducationMississippi University for Women (1965)
Memphis Academy of Art (1965)
University of the Americas (1967)
Alma materCentral Saint Martins College of Arts and Design (1969)
MovementPostminimalism and Pattern & Decoration
SpouseRichard Kalina

Valerie Jaudon (born August 6, 1945) is an American painter commonly associated with various Postminimal practices – the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970s, site-specific public art, and new tendencies in abstraction.[1]

Life

Valerie Jaudon was born in Greenville, Mississippi and studied at Mississippi University for Women (1963–1965), Memphis Academy of Art (1965), University of the Americas in Mexico City (1966–1967), and Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design in London (1968–1969).[2]

Work

Valerie Jaudon is an original member of the Pattern and Decoration movement. Her art has been written about consistently in books, journals, magazines, newspapers, and catalogs. She is the co-author, with Joyce Kozloff, of the widely anthologized Art Hysterical Notions of Progress and Culture (1978), in which she and Kozloff explained how they thought sexist and racist assumptions underlaid Western art history discourse. They reasserted the value of ornamentation and aesthetic beauty - qualities assigned to the feminine sphere.[3][4][5]

In 2011 Jaudon was elected to the National Academy of Design.[1]

Since 1987 Valerie Jaudon has taught at Hunter College of the City University of New York, where she is Professor of Art.[1]

Exhibitions

Jaudon has had numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. She began her early career in New York with the group exhibition, "76 Jefferson Street," at the Museum of Modern Art in 1975, featuring artists who had lived and worked in the 1893 loft building near the East River and the Manhattan Bridge, an area on the Lower East Side which began to attract artists and musicians in the mid-1950s.[6]

She was one of the original painters of the Pattern and Decoration movements of the 1970s. The group began exhibiting together in 1976 in "Ten Approaches to the Decorative" at the Alessandra Gallery in New York,[7] followed by "Pattern Painting" in 1977 at PS1 in Long Island City, Queens.[8] Subsequently, over fifty group exhibitions featuring the founding artists were held in museums and galleries in Europe and the U.S. including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Art Institute of Chicago, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaeck, Denmark, the Neue Galerie, in Aachen, Germany, the Pori Art Museum, the Mayor Gallery in London, Modern Art Oxford, and the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York.[9]

In 2012 Jaudon was both included and involved with organizing a re-staging of the seminal group exhibition "Conceptual Abstraction", a survey of twenty contemporary abstract painters, at Hunter College Galleries curated by Joachim Pissarro and Pepe Karmel. The original exhibition, for which Jaudon was credited with coining the name "Conceptual Abstraction", took place in 1991 at the Sidney Janis Gallery.[10]

Jaudon's first solo painting exhibition was at the Holly Solomon Gallery in New York in 1977 with further exhibitions in 1978, 1979 and 1981. The Sidney Janis Gallery represented her from 1982 until 1999 (until the gallery's closing), with solo exhibitions in 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1993 and 1996. The Von Lintel Gallery in New York, now in Los Angeles, represented her starting in 2002, with solo exhibitions in 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2016. She is also currently represented in New York by DC Moore Gallery, with solo exhibitions in 2014, 2015, and 2020.

Other solo exhibitions include: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1977); Galerie Bischofsberger, Zurich (1979); Hans Strelow Gallery, Düsseldorf (1980); Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles (1981); Quadrat Museum, Bottrop, Germany (1983); Amerika Haus, Berlin (1983); McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington D.C. (1985); the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson] (1996); Stadel Museum, Frankfurt (1999); University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford (2011).[2]

Public art

Valerie Jaudon has completed fourteen major site-specific public art projects in a variety of media – painting, landscaping, mosaics, ceramic tile, welded steel, and cut stone.

Her first public project in 1977 was a ninety-foot-long ceiling mural in the INA Tower in Philadelphia, the Mitchell/Giurgola addition to the Insurance Company of North America building.[11] The mural was executed during the period of her work with the architect Romaldo Giurgola. Jaudon was associated with the firm's New York and Philadelphia offices from 1975 until 1980, and worked on a wide range of projects.[12]

In 1988 she completed Long Division, a sixty-foot-long welded steel fence, for the New York City Subway's 23rd Street station on the 4, ​6, and <6> trains.[13]

The Art Commission of the City of New York awarded Jaudon an Excellence in Design Award in 1988 for Reunion, a three-and-a-half acre paving plan with a 34' diameter granite floor mural at the 1 Police Plaza/Manhattan Municipal Building. This project was sponsored by the New York City Department of General Services, Percent for Art, and the Department of Cultural Affairs.[14]

In 1993 Jaudon completed Blue Pools Courtyard, a site-specific installation with inlaid tile pools, plantings, and brick and bluestone pavers for the Charles W. Ireland Sculpture Garden at the Birmingham Museum of Art, and in 1994 received a merit award from the Alabama chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects. In 2010 the American Planning Association named the Charles W. Ireland Sculpture Garden as one of the Great Public Spaces in America.[15]

Other public projects include Filippine Garden, 2004, a two-and-a-half acre garden with grass, gravel, and stone for the Thomas F. Eagleton Federal Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri[16] and a mosaic floor installation for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Crystal City, Virginia, and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.[17]

Selected honors and awards

  • 1980 New York State Creative Artist Public Service Grant
  • 1981 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, Art Award
  • 1988 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship
  • 1988 Art Commission of the City of New York, Award for Excellence in Design
  • 1987 Art Commission of the City of New York, Special Commendation for Police Plaza Art Work
  • 1991 American Society of Landscape Architects, Alabama Chapter Merit Award for the Charles W. Ireland Memorial Sculpture Garden of the Birmingham Museum of Art
  • 1992 New York Foundation for the Arts], Painting Fellowship
  • 1997 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, Art Award
  • 1996 Women's City Club of New York, Civic Spirit Award
  • 1999 Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, Distinguished Alumna Award
  • 2002 Mississippi Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts Honored Artist Award
  • 2002 Appointed to the National Register of Peer Professionals in the Design Excellence Program of the U.S. General Services Administration
  • 2010 American Planning Association, the Charles Ireland Memorial Sculpture Garden of the Birmingham Museum of Art named as one of the "Great Public Spaces for 2010"
  • 2011 Elected to the National Academy of Design

References

  1. ^ a b c "Valerie Jaudon — Hunter College". Hunter.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
  2. ^ a b "Von Lintel Gallery | Los Angeles ····· Valerie Jaudon". Vonlintel.com. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
  3. ^ Jaudon, Valerie (Winter 1977–1978), "Art Hysterical Notions of Progress and Culture." (PDF), Heresies #4, retrieved 2012-09-12
  4. ^ "Valerie Jaudon and Joyce Kozloff, 'Art Hysterical Notions of Progress and Culture' (1978)*". Dead Revolutionaries Club. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
  5. ^ Stiles, Kristine and Peter Selz (1996). Theories and Document of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings. Berkeley and Los Angeles California: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-20251-1. pp. 154–155
  6. ^ "76 JEFFERSON - FALL PENTHOUSE ART LENDING SERVICE EXHIBITION" (PDF). The Museum of Modern Art.
  7. ^ Perrone, Jeff (December, 1976). " Approaching the Decorative." ArtForum, Vol. XV, No. 4. pp. 26–30
  8. ^ Perreault, John (November, 1977). "Pattern Painting." ArtForum, Vol 16, No. 3. pp. 32–36
  9. ^ Swartz, Ann (2007). "Chronology of Shows and Writings." Pattern and Decoration: An Ideal Vision in American Art, 1975–1985. Hudson River Museum, ISBN 978-0-943651-35-4. pp. 113–119
  10. ^ Karmel, Pepe; Pissaro, Joachim (2012). "Conceptual Abstraction: October 5-November 10, 2012, Hunter College". Conceptual Abstraction. New York: Hunter College of the City of New York. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-9839261-6-0. In November of 1991, the Sidney Janis Gallery opened the groundbreaking Conceptual Abstraction exhibition under the auspices of Carroll Janis, with the collaboration of the painter Valerie Jaudon who coined its title. This was, in effect, one of the last shows at a gallery long associated with the rise of post war art in New York. Founded in 1948 by the intrepid dealer Sidney Janis, the gallery played a major role in the development of Abstract Expressionism; in 1962, it showcased the first major Pop Art show, and by the nineties it had become synonymous with blue chip Modernism. Conceptual Abstraction, however, was a radical departure for a gallery better known for representing a roster of established artists that included such luminaries as Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock, and Claes Oldenburg. Organized at a time when abstraction had fallen into disfavor, the original exhibition included a new generation of painters who strayed from modernist notions of non-figurative painting and instead built their abstracted visions on fresh aspects of a newly surfaced reality—be it decorative patterning, direct appropriation, geometric constructions, or language. This initiative by the Janis Gallery spurred a plethora of similar group exhibitions around the New York art world, serving as a lively platform for debate on the state of painting at the end of the twentieth century. Moreover, Conceptual Abstraction demonstrated that abstract painting remained a vital and progressive option for contemporary art, and it could be argued that the current renaissance of abstract painting began with this 1991 exhibition.
  11. ^ Webster, Sally (November/December, 1977). "Spatial Geometry." Arts Exchange, Philadelphia. pp.13–14
  12. ^ Necol, Jane (1996) "Annotated Listing of Permanent Public and Architectural Projects," Valerie Jaudon. Ed. Rene Barilleaux. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-887422-00-0. pp. 79–82
  13. ^ Adams, Laurie Schneider (2002). Art Across Time, New York: McGraw Hill. ISBN 0-07-245006-1. p.1007
  14. ^ "Valerie Jaudon - NYC Department of Cultural Affairs". Nyc.gov. 2011-02-16. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
  15. ^ "Sculpture.org". Sculpture.org. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
  16. ^ "Filippine garden - Valerie Jaudon" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-29. Retrieved 2012-11-19.
  17. ^ "Public Art Photo Gallery". Mwaa.com. Retrieved 2014-06-16.

Sources

  • René Paul Barilleaux, ed. (1996). Valerie Jaudon. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-887422-00-0.
  • Schwabsky, Barry, Degrees of Symmetry, Art in America, October, 1996. pp. 92–97.