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Judy Ledgerwood

Cold Days

 
 

1999, 48 pp., 39 color, 1 b/w illus., paperback
ISBN 0941548-41-4
$25.00
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  Essay by Craig Adcock

In this cycle of Ledgerwood's paintings, winter light and atmosphere are distilled into abstract fields of shimmering iridescent color and pattern that seduce the eye and elicit the intelligence of nature's ethereal mysteries. The delicate surfaces of her carefully patterned canvases shimmer and resonate with the harsh cool beauty typical of the Midwestern winter landscape at its most unforgiving. Or, make-up and women's fashion - take your pick. In these paintings, Ledgerwood investigates the somewhat uneasy intersection of ornamentation, fashion and the Sublime. The accompanying essay by Craig Adcock, Professor of Art History at the University of Iowa, illustrates how Ledgerwood challenges typically male-identified notions of the Sublime in modernist painting.

A special edition of this artist's book is also available, featuring a vellum frontispiece page on which the artist has left an "autograph" of her singular markings in metallic paint.
$300.00
 


   
   
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