Valerie Jaudon

Valerie Jaudon is a painter widely known for her handling of crisp-edged, interlaced forms that evoke the intricate motifs of Celtic and Islamic illumination and the ancient ornamental art of filigree. A leader of the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970s—which integrated the so-called “minor” art of decoration with the “high” art of painting—Jaudon explores the tensions and contradictions arising from the interaction of ornament, abstract form, and painterly surface.

Jaudon was educated at the Mississippi University for Women, Memphis Academy of Art, University of the Americas in Mexico City, and St. Martins School of Art in London. Her abstract paintings are in numerous museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the St. Louis Art Museum in Missouri.