TitleDiction
Artist
Valerie Jaudon
(American, b. 1945)
Date2008
MediumOil on linen
DimensionsUnframed: 72 x 72 in.
SignedSigned in marker on verso, UC: "Valerie Jaudon"
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, November 16, 2011
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Gift of Thomas Von Lintel
Object number2011.34
Label TextAn important member of the Pattern and Decoration movement in the 1970s, Valerie Jaudon continues to dissemble cultural hierarchies through the focused visual systems she creates. The artist has said, "I realized, in my early paintings, that although I would start off with this small unit, a brushstroke, something that didn't seem to have meaning, when I put a couple of hundred of them down, the references or associations would be overwhelming." Using a personal vocabulary of calligraphic forms, Jaudon paints rhythmic undulating compositions over subtle grid structures, evoking the applied arts from a variety of cultures including Islamic ornamentation and Gothic stonework. Yet her repetitive configurations defy cultural categorization. The title of this work furthers the artist's upending of hierarchies, as the verbal folds in the visual.
