K A T H E R I N E    D O L G Y    L U D W I G          BA  BARCH  AOCAD  MFA (Chelsea, London Institute)

I found the RIDER Project so rewarding that after the September show traveling NYC (CELL2Cell2cell) of New York Circles, and the October show that stayed at DUMBO (Neubees), I resolved to go back and

make it an ongoing RIDER, albeit without the truck -- then I began the Fellowship, and was back to having adventures and painting in the streets!  Here are the information/statement sheets for the two projects:

Katherine Dolgy Ludwig, RIDER Project (CELL2Cell2cell) New York Circles, information:

For each of the 100 paintings: 

Title is Sequence Number, Name of Subject, Place, Date, Time

Dimension is 10.25inx7in vertical

Materials are watercolor on acidfree paper painted on-site

Date is immediate, from the time the RIDER opens to final closing 2006

Price is nil: digital copies and invite to final showing will be given as gifts to subjects

Katherine Dolgy Ludwig, Artist Statement for RIDER Project, New York Circles

RIDER is a collaborative group exhibition: for me also with the subjects encountered daily.  I paint them in

the order I randomly meet them, exchanging our names and 15 minutes of conversation together, in the

place and date determined by the truck driver.  

RIDER is mobile, my materials are fast as three watercolors mixed on the street.  Each day the work is just

hung to dry on the wall in an arbitrary exhibit in keeping with the group show’s commitment to chance installation. 

Each night the work is collected into a book for display, recording the progress of the paintings as a whole so

that subjects can imagine their place in a story of incidental encounters.  

My painting practice is in an arc of painting arbitrary Individuals typified as Groups – Police Officers, Playboy

Bunnies, Nude Naturists, Powerful Secretaries, Wealthy Children, Street Children, Lawyers, Religious Leaders,

and now New Yorkers – it has been a reporting of all people, however random their encounters, imagining

themselves in a larger story.

Art made directly with people, given as a digital gift, heals.  It is my luck to be able to paint and give in this way,

circumventing all obstacles of societal structures, cultural constraints, and conflicts of any kind.  Each painting of

individual subjects is small, but when the 100 paintings are eventually together with all the paintings to follow in

2007, 2008, and 2009, they will fill every wall of a room in the round.  At the final show one day, we will all meet.

                    (photo by Dianne Bowen 2006 RIDER Project)

Katherine Dolgy Ludwig, RIDER Project (Neubees) Queen Bee, information:

For each of the 100 paintings: 

Title is Queen Bees, in 50 pieces

Dimension is 60inx40in vertical

Materials are watercolor on acidfree paper, gold paper, gold chains

Date October 2006

Katherine Dolgy Ludwig, Artist Statement for RIDER Project, Queen Bees

As bees gather pollen to make honey, I go to the flower to get the good stuff.  In a week of observation,

fifty pieces were made of four flower types I knew first in paintings, the lilies Calla and Casablanca, and

sunflowers Teddy and Fullface.  I've painted so many women that now they assert themselves in famous

painting poses and populate the montage -- these are my Queen Bees.  Like a bee to pollen, I'm a kind

of drone for the love of art ....did I miss hear when they said "follow the honey?!"  What fools artists are!

                                    (photo by Katherine Dolgy Ludwig 2006 RIDER Project)

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