Art in America Guide

Inner Vision: Judy Ledgerwood's Monotypes
2026-02-02 - 2027-02-02 | IFPDA Viewing Room
In 2020 Judy Ledgerwood produced a significant body of unique prints with Manneken Press. a project that continued over a period of months and resulted in more than thirty monotypes.
Using watercolor, rather tan traditional printing inks, the aqueous media flowed, allowing the colors to pool, run together, settle and dry in unique patterns and textures, emphasizing its physical materiality as a substance and producing results distinctly different from working with watercolor in an unmediated, direct manner on paper. Ledgerwood’s signature quatrefoil shapes, loose, diagonal grids, floral and yonic symbols, references to quilts and the “feminine arts” and intense, penetrating colors are found throughout the monotype series.
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Sarah Smelser: Sandia
2026-02-02 - 2027-02-02
Sarah Smelser’s “Sandia” images filter her experience of the desert environments of the American Southwest, its particular qualities of light, heat, emptiness and expansive spaces of the landscape through an abstract sensibility.
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Array: A Woodcut Opus by Rupert Deese
2026-02-02 08:00 - 2027-02-02 17:00 (America/New_York)
“Array” are twenty circular woodcuts by Rupert Deese, the series unfolded over seven years: Array 700 appeared in 2005, followed by Array 350 and Array 500 in 2006, with the project culminating in Array 1000 in 2012. Each print divides the circular field into a distinct tiling system. Beginning with nine equal radial divisions, Deese further organizes the space through additional radial lines and inscribed circles, producing intricate, balanced configurations that are unique to each work.
While firmly abstract, the Array images maintain a subtle relationship to the landscapes and watersheds of California’s upper Merced and Tuolumne Rivers—regions central to the artist’s experience and to his larger practice. The suite can be understood as an extended meditation on these geographies, translating their rhythms and structures into ordered, contemplative visual systems.
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