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Abstract, geometric and ornamental forms characterize the works of artist Valerie Jaudon. She refers to a millennia-old tradition, which she develops further in her contemporary, modern art. Jaudon succeeds in uniting seemingly contradictory forms of expression of oriental calligraphic designs with hard edge painting and concrete art in an unmistakable, independent style.
Key points of reference are harmonious dimensions, structural order, harmonious proportions, serial repetition of patterns and forms, symmetrical balance, elegant color selection, precisely executed. Valerie Jaudon enjoys experimenting with a wide variety of symbols, which she combines in seemingly endless variations. Her compositions are characterized by high aesthetics, pure beauty.
Eva Mueller | Art Consultant
Curator of the Koenigshof Collection
VITA VALERIE JAUDON (short form)
1945 born in Greenville, Mississippi | 1963-65 Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, Mississippi | 1965 Memphis Academy of Art, Memphis, Tennessee | 1966-67 University of the Americas, Mexico City, Mexico | 1968-69 St. Martins School of Art, London, England (post-graduate year in Painting)
AWARDS AND WORKS IN PUBLIC SPACES (selection)
2010 American Planning Association, Great Places in America “Great Public Spaces for 2010” for the Charles Ireland Memorial Sculpture Garden of the Birmingham Museum | 2004 Partnership for Downtown St. Louis, the Better Downtown Award for Filippine Garden, St. Louis | 2002 Mississippi Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts Honored Artist Award | 1997 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, Art Award | 1992 New York Foundation for the Arts, Painting Grant | 1991 American Society of Landscape Architects, Alabama Chapter, Merit Award, Charles Ireland Memorial Sculpture Garden of the Birmingham Museum | 1988 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship Grant Art | 1987 Art Commission of the City of New York, Special Commendation for Police Plaza Art Work | 1981 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, Art Award | 1980 CAPS Grant for Graphics, New York State
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York | Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut | Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama | Dayton Art Institute, Ohio | Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles | Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts | Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina | Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. | Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana | Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark | Ludwig Museum, Budapest | Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson | Museum of Modern Art, New York | Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria | Museu de Arte Moderna, Berardo Collection, Lisbon, Portugal | Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina | National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. | Orlando Museum of Art, Florida | Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida | Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York | Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts | Städel Museum, Frankfurt | St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri | University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford | Vassar College, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut