Valerie Jaudon is an American painter born in Greenville, Mississippi in the year 1945. For her collegiate studies she attended many schools. The Memphis Academy of Art, the University of the Americas, and St. Martin’s School of Art in London, England.
price range information: Etchings can be found around $500. Works in oils range $2,000 to $25,000.
Jaudon was a member of the Pattern and Decoration movement popular in 1970s. When looking at the artist’s work its abstract, yet very organized. For instance you have very loose abstraction such as this work by Jackson Pollack. Interesting for a variety of color combinations and surface texture, but very loose in design and use of color.
Then we have what I like to call organized abstraction. For this is an artist like Beatriz Milhazes from Brazil or even Kandinsky of Russia. Both have a fair amount of unused or a one color portion in their works. Jaudon and other members of the Pattern and Design movement concentrated on organized abstraction. When looking at many of these works and Jaudon’s in particular the viewer is reminded of a luxury gate or doorway with intricate patterns and also with basic geometric shapes which are repeated through out the artwork. Another pattern that comes to mind would be the pattern seen through a kaleidoscope. Here is a work by Beatriz Milhazes who has had works break the one million dollar level. Very abstract but organized and with an emphasis on color combinations.
In this clip we visit a gallery show featuring the artist at the Von Lintel gallery in 2012. Take the time to view the entire work but pay attention shortly after the one minute mark. The camera focuses close up on the image and then pans out. When looking at a close view its amazing the variety of textures and colors found in these works which seem from a distance rather flat.
Valerie Jaudon also has fulfilled many commission requests and check out this architecture project she completed. Its an awesome bird’s eye view. She has completed more than ten of these public commissions.
Jaudon lives and works out of New York city.
Jaudon is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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