LEAP, 2013

A billboard commissioned by Michele Liao in 2013, “Leap” is one of Judd’s most successful public art ventures. Perched on top of Liao’s iconic warehouse in Philadelphia, it is a haunting image of a diving figure that seems like it is falling from outer space into a nineteenth century photograph of a somber misty river view. Time stands still in this vignette, leaving the viewer wondering what is being witnessed, whether dangerous or sublime, or both.