Degrees of symmetry - painting, Valerie Jaudon, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi

Art in America, Oct, 1996 by Barry Schwabsky

(1.) Robert C. Morgan, Concept-Decoratif: Anti Formalist Art of the '70s, New York, Nahan Contemporary, 1990. (2.) E. H. Gombrich, The Sense of Order, quoted by Anna C. Chave, "Disorderly Order: The Art of Valerie Jaudon," Valerie Jaudon, Jackson, Mississippi Museum of Art, 1996, p. 39. (3.) Chave cites John Yau and Carrie Rickey on this aspect of Jaudon's work. (4.) "A Chronological Analysis of the Paintings," Valerie Jaudon, p. 54. (5.) Rene Paul Barilleaux, "Interview with Valerie Jaudon," Valerie Jaudon, p. 75.

"Valerie Jaudon" appeared at the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson (May 24-Aug. 3). The exhibition was accompanied by a 96-page catalogue with an essay by Anna C. Chave, an interview with the artist by Rene' Paul Barilleaux (the curator of the exhibition as well as the director of exhibitions and collections and chief curator of the museum), and an annotated listing of permanent public and architectural projects by Jane Necol.

Author Barry Schwabsky is senior editor of TRANS>arts.cultures.media. He is co-author of Jessica Stockholder (Phaidon Press, 1995) and author of The Widening Circle: Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art, a collection of essays to be published by Cambridge University Press in 1997.