Judy Ledgerwood American, b. 1959

Ledgerwood was born in Brazil, Indiana in 1959. She lives and works in Chicago, IL and has exhibited internationally at numerous institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Renaissance Society in Chicago and Graham Foundation, Chicago.

Since the beginning of her career in the 1980’s Judy Ledgerwood has been exploring light, color, and space in painting. Ledgerwood combines the formal vocabulary of concrete abstraction with influences from pop culture to create vividly colored compositions. Her paintings combine decorative patterning, central to textile design and other traditionally female crafts, with bold color and assertive brush strokes, traits associated with the male-dominated tradition of gestural abstraction. For Ledgerwood, content lies in chroma's ability to create moments of simultaneous harmony and disequilibrium.

Ledgerwood is collected by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), Art Institute of Chicago, among others.