Carol Ladewig

STATEMENT

Entitled Year in Color, this series seeks to visually and literally render the abstract concept of time and its measurement. Since 2011, in a return to an earlier practice of daily creations, I have been creating a small painting for each day using a complex color that has been made by mixing a simple set of primary pigments and white. The color for each day begins with the previous day's color and develops from responses to the day’s events. The practice is an attempt to translate and capture the day’s unique experiences, activities, and moods. I have assembled these small works into week, month, and full-year installations. With varying annual rules and limitations for each year’s iterations, I am exploring the interplay between structure, intent, and chance to create a record of time that is both a narrative and a history.

Well into the third year of this project, I have found through the gradual accumulation of impressions that this body of work represents, shifting between personal experience / cultural influence / universal structures: time adds up to more than what we make of it in the moment.

BIO

Carol Ladewig received a BA from the University of California, Berkeley and her MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts, where she also received a 1991 Barclay Simpson Award and Exhibition. Since then she has been showing her work at the Lucy Berman Gallery in Palo Alto, Kala Art Center, Berkeley Art Center, Museum of Los Gatos, Ute Stebich Gallery in Lenox MA, and BGH Gallery in Los Angeles, among many others and is currently represented by Slate Contemporary, Oakland, CA.  Ladewig’s work is held in both public and private collections across the United States and Europe including the Packard Foundation, SAP America, and Alameda County Art Collections. She has been an instructor in the Art Department at Diablo Valley College, since 2001.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013    YEAR IN COLOR/LUNAR CYCLES, new work by Carol Ladewig, Slate Contemporary,

              Oakland, CA

2010    Carol Ladewig, Rhythm, Bocanova, Oakland, CA

2001    Carol Ladewig Notations, The Loft, BGH Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

             Carol Ladewig, Ute Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA

1999    Carol Ladewig, Recent Work, 456 Montgomery Plaza, Lobby, San Francisco, CA

1995    Structure and Memory, Paintings by Carol Ladewig, Air Touch, Walnut Creek, CA

             Carol Ladewig, Paintings, Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

             Structure and Memory, Paintings by Carol Ladewig, Hewlett-Packard Company,

             Palo Alto, CA

1993    Carol Ladewig, Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

1990    Introductions, Carol Ladewig, Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013    Kala-fornia: State of the Art 3, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

              Introductions: New Artists at SLATE, SLATE contemporary, Oakland, CA

              Dualities, Linus Gallery, Pasadena, CA

2012     Kala Artists’ Annual / Fresh Work, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

              WONDER, Berkeley, Art Center, Berkeley, CA

              Keeping Time,  Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

              COLLECT!, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA

              Year in Color, 2011 (52 weeks and a day) San Francisco Fine Art Fair, SLATE Contemporary

              Left to Chance, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA

2011    Shine, Artist's Annual, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA

              Artist's Annual Exhibition, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

              Small Miracles, San Pablo Art Gallery, San Pablo, CA

              Art Passages, "The Faculty Exhibition" at Gallery 651, Contra Costa County Admin Bldg, 

              Martinez, CA

              CCA Alumni Exhibition Series at the Brava Theater, San Francisco, CA

2010     Kala Artists’ Annual/Fresh Work, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA 

              On View, New Work from KALA, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

2009     Painting Large, Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA

2007     CCA 100th Anniversary Celebration, Montclair Gallery, Oakland, CA

2005     Gallery Artists, Haddad Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

2004     CCASEE, California College of the Arts, 2004 Alumni Exhibitions, Mendocino Art Center,

              Mendocino, CA

2003    Texas National Art Exhibition, Griffith Gallery, Stephen F. Austin State University,

              Nacogdoches, TX

              Positive/Negative, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University,

              Johnson City, TN

              Made in America, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA

2002    Pro Arts Juried Annual, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA

2001    Hidden Treasures, The Pardee Artists, The Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA

             Reconstructing Reality, The Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA

             House Variations, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA

             Displaced Passion, Circle Elephant Art, curated by Paige Payne, Los Angeles

PUBLICATIONS:

Art-Vetting, reviews by Adrianne Rubenstein (Director, James Fuentes Gallery, NY) and Dan Peyton, (Principal, Art-Vetting), April 2013

PAINTING TIME  Carol Ladewig, exhibition catalog featuring essays by DeWitt Cheng and Danielle Fox, Oakland, CA

the Breakfast Club, Berkeley, CA

CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF THE BARCLAY SIMPSON AWARD, CCA, California College of the Arts, 2012

STUDIO VISIT MAGAZINE, Volume 17, June 2012

FACTOR XX catalog, Los Gatos Museum of Art, November, 2012

"Diasters in Perspective", by Berin Golonu, Artweek, February, 2002

"Reality Check, Bay Area Artist Respond to September 11", by Sara Zaska, Urbanview, 12.11.01

"Hidden Treasurers, The Pardee Artists at the Oakland Art Gallery, by Christin Brennemann, Artweek, 11.11.01