Valerie Jaudon (born August 6, 1945) is an American painter commonly associated with various Postminimal practices – the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970s, site-specific public art, and new tendencies in abstraction.
The group began exhibiting together in 1976 in "Ten Approaches to the Decorative" at the Alessandra Gallery in New York,[7] followed by "Pattern Painting" in 1977 at PS1 in Long Island City, Queens.
[2] Valerie Jaudon has completed fourteen major site-specific public art projects in a variety of media – painting, landscaping, mosaics, ceramic tile, welded steel, and cut stone.
Her first public project in 1977 was a ninety-foot-long ceiling mural in the INA Tower in Philadelphia, the Mitchell/Giurgola addition to the Insurance Company of North America building.
[12] In 1988 she completed Long Division, a sixty-foot-long welded steel fence, for the New York City Subway's 23rd Street station on the 4, 6, and <6> trains.
[15] Other public projects include Filippine Garden, 2004, a two-and-a-half acre garden with grass, gravel, and stone for the Thomas F. Eagleton Federal Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri[16] and a mosaic floor installation for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Crystal City, Virginia, and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.