Carol Ladewig

Lives and works in 3246 Ettie Street, Oakland, CA 94608

Artist statement

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. Her work has been exhibited by the Triton Museum, Marin MOCA, Lucy Berman Gallery in Palo Alto, Kala Art Center, Berkeley Art Center, Museum of Los Gatos, Slate contemporary, Oakland, Ute Stebich Gallery in Lenox MA, and BGH Gallery in Los Angeles, among many others. Ladewig was named an artist-in-residence at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, 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 was an instructor in the Art Department at Diablo Valley College, from 2001 to 2018. In graduate school I became interested in the structure of the grid as an organizing form for my work. I began a daily drawing practice and placed each image on the wall of my studio, building a grid, which created a visual diary of my thoughts during that year. In this process, I became interested in the ways in which separate drawings came to relate one to the other. Placed in conversation with each other, the images’ meanings evolved and shifted. Leslie Lerner, an advisor, suggested I translated this practice of combining these separate elements, using a grid structure, into my paintings; the first series was “States of Mind,” which combined layered images,...

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