Judy Ledgerwood
Judy Ledgerwood studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In her artistic practice, she combines concrete abstraction with influences from fashion, textile design and other areas of popular culture traditionally associated with the feminine. Since the 1990s, she has increasingly focused her formal vocabulary on elementary shapes such as circles and squares, combining them in intense colours to create rhythmic, sensual compositions. Ledgerwood is particularly known for her large-scale paintings and installations, in which colour, pattern and repetition play a central role.
Most recently, Judy Ledgerwood collaborated with Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg in 2025 on the art project Flowers for the Blue Line. Together with the manufactory’s artisans, she created around 800 individually glazed and hand-painted majolica tiles for the Racine station on Chicago’s Blue Line. Based on 16 different basic forms, groups of four tiles come together to create stylised flowers, with no two flowers alike. The vibrant ceramic reliefs bring Ledgerwood’s characteristic use of colour, geometric forms and repetition into the public realm, combining her contemporary visual language with Nymphenburg’s traditional majolica technique.
