Location: United States
Carol Ladewig carol@carolladewig.com
www.carolladewig.com
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, Ute Stebich Gallery in Lenox MA, and BGH Gallery in Los Angeles, among many others, and is currently represented by SLATE contemporary, Oakland, CA. In 2013, 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 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
2015 Color Charts, SLATE contemporary, Oakland, CA
5 from 415, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT
Summer National Juried Exhibition, Marin MOCA,
Novato, CA
Bay Area Abstract, American Steel Studios, Oakland, CA
Solstice, Haggus Society, Los Angeles, CA
Members Show, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Collect!, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2014 Salon, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Axis Invitational, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
9th National Juried Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento,
CA
The Breakfast Group: A Half Century of Java and Jive,
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Collect!, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Here, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Kala Artists Annual, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Kalassal, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Kala 40, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2013 Kala Artists' Annual, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Where to from There?, ProArts, Oakland, CA
Array, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Big is Beautiful, Art Contemporary Marin / Bay Model
Visitor Center, Sausalito, CA
The Breakfast Group: A Half Century of Java and Jive,
Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA
50/50 V, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
Slice!: A Cross-Section of Regional Art (Second Place),
Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
Kala-fornia: State of the Art 3, Kala Art Institute,
Berkeley, CA
Dualities, Linus Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Introductions: New Artists at SLATE, SLATE
contemporary, Oakland, 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:
"Carol Ladewig," by Elise Morris, The Studio Work, February 2014
"Alumna Carol Ladewig: My Life as a Pardee Artist," by Jim Norrena, California College of the Arts News, December 2013
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
The series “Painting Time” began in 2011 and renders the abstract concept time and its measurement into visual and literal form through the medium of color and structure. The works are composed of small individual paintings. In these small paintings, each of which represents either an individual day or week, I translate a day's personal experiences and moods into a single color. This color is then combined with a neutral tone according to universal patterns such as the percentage of the moon that was in shadow on that date. Each year these installations have looked at different elements and ways of visualizing and tracking time. Days have been organized sequentially into weeks either horizontally or vertically while looking at the relationship of day to night, or sunrise and sunset, and waking and sleeping.
Beginning in 2020 I re-imagined "Painting Time" which had been based on exploring the ways in which we organized time into hours, weeks, months, or years. The last 2016-2019 Painting Time was based on seasons, which was one of the earliest ways in which time was organized.
With Covid my experience of the passage of time changed into a discontinuous and layered sense of time and memory, rather than the chronological systems of time keeping I had previously used. The new work: Painting Time: Moments, organizes paintings & drawings on wood panels of various shapes and sizes into related groups using a metal armature. I designed the armature and Michael Maes fabricated it. The result is a painting/wall sculpture.
In this body of work, I strive to create an eloquent balance between my personal perceptions and universally recognized structures that represent the passage of time.
“Painting Time: Moments-Santa Fe, NM, May 2023”
This work was created during a residency at Jen Tough AIR Studios in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is composed of six panels, 3 triangular shapes and 3 square shapes of varying sizes. The color, patterns and choices for this work developed from my experience of being there and the physical environment.
