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Artist Exhibitions:
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Shows
Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery
Project Fundraiser,
Youngstown, Ohio, 2003
Between The Pages Coffeeshop
in Conkey's Bookstore,
Appleton, Wisconsin, 2002
Selected Juried Group
Exhibitions
2007: First Unitarian
Universalist Church's In
Praise of the Arts show (IPOA)
Youngstown, OH
2006: 70th Area Artists
Annual, Butler Institute ...
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Artist Galleries:
STAY TUNED....
The East End Gallery-- OPENING
SOON!
121 E College Ave
Appleton, WI 54911
920-734-4278
dave@eastendgallery.net...
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Artist Statement for Diana Ludwig
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Illustrator and fine artist now accepting commissions
Contact studio15828-artwork@yahoo.com
Indulging In A Passion For Mark-Making: the Artist’s Statement
Diana Ludwig, Fine Artist and Illustrator
HC 1, Box 169, Clarington, Pennsylvania 15828
330-530-2659; 814-752-6328; drawingdiana@gmail.com
Engaging in adrenaline-charged mark-making, the artist is attempting to portray the writhing mass of life forms around her. She includes fields of energy and minefields of emotion and thought which are clearly visible to her. The landscape writhes; geologic history is compressed and covers about 37 hours which are all recorded in her piece. This vision is applied to figures and activities that capture her wits, are absorbed, digested & spewed back out upon the working surface. A piece is physically worked into, pushed, pulled, gashed, soothed and stroked. A wide variety of mostly water-soluble media are used to converse with the ground, usually crashing beyond any boundaries of tidiness. Neither is the evolution of the idea behind any piece tidy. She almost always begins with a concrete glimpse of nature, from which a dialogue ensues, arguments tumult, tempers flare, spirits plummet, and soar – and usually surprised herself—the artist emerges—quite scathed—on the other side with a rich piece, evidence of a journey. It’s as if the artist steps off deliberately pursuing uncertainty.
Ludwig has a fine arts degree with an emphasis on drawing from Kutztown University.
She has spent 16 years in chocolate factories doing everything from running a moulding line to turning raw ingredients into the liquid chocolate product to creating fine European truffles by hand. She has circumnavigated the perimeter of the state of Pennsylvania on a solo bike-packing trip, and solo-backpacked across the mountains (small ones) of this most favorite state for 2 weeks at a time.
The artist found the bird form useful in translating her personal delvings into existentialism— i.e. why make art at all? A rising bird, a seeking bird, a storm-tossed bird, a scrabbling-in-the-gritty-barnyard- dirt bird, a bird terrorized trying to escape the crazed snorting bull… and a carnival bird, all are used to symbolize the searching soul. Birds and Legs, was derived from images pulled from patterns in pressed powdered graphite suspended in water. The pigeon appears frequently as the artist would bring them into the studio to study.
The piece Dying Tracks, 2002, had its genesis in the smidgeon of brilliant surveyor’s string and her interaction dove in from there, with the visceral yanking of the surface in and out. A sluggish fly approached (fatally), gesso was applied, and as the hapless insect ran out of air it left a tiny swirl of tracks in the media. Mushroom Picker, captures the artist’s experience in the eerie atmosphere of the commercial mushroom house; Berry Picker, is a Mennonite fellow compadre in the commercial strawberry fields; Kneeling Woman, depicts the digging of potatoes from a garden.
The East End Gallery, Appleton, Wisconsin, is the first, and currently the only, venue to show Ludwig’s work. Gallery website: www.eastendgallery.net dave@eastendgallery.net
Diana Ludwig, Fine Artist and Illustrator
HC 1, Box 169, Belltown Road, Clarington, Pennsylvania 15828
330-530-2659, 814-752-6328
E-MAIL: drawingdiana@gmail.com
WEBSITE PORTFOLIOS: www.freediana.freeservers.com
http://dianaludwig.com/artgallery/main.php
http://www.photo.net/shared/community-member?user_id=478658
http://www.worldisround.com/home/diwigy/index.html
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