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)

Peter Goddard, art critic for the Toronto Star, gave a talk on opening night about being a critic and identified my own art practice as New Populism:  while valuing the piece made, my work is also the performance of public interaction making it, the show event, the delivery of work to its new home; I value all parts of the practice that connect to the pop(ulace).  Here is the invitation:

KATHERINE  DOLGY  LUDWIG  SOLO  SHOW  RETRO –  SPECTIVE 

The Toronto Arts and Letters Club, 14 Elm Street, M5G 1G7 

Public Opening Saturday, May 14, 10am to 4pm 

all other public viewings by appointment: Sunday, May 8 to Friday, June 3

contact day or night:  416 782 1404, or kdolgyludwig@faculty.ocad.ca

                                                                   Katherine, who received her MFA (Chelsea) working and showing in London, is Da Vinci Paint’s Master Painter, teaches Art Criticism at OCAD,

                                                                  and gives watercolour workshops en plein air.  She has been called “the Christo of Watercolor” traveling in recent projects to paint Playboy Bunnies

                                                                  in Chicago and the Southwark Police in London, Vegas Cabana Boys and Supermom’s around the world:  “I like to get behind the stereotypes to

                                                                  touch on the essential humanity of the subject.”  An architect, Katherine will include her recent interiors and landscapes inspired by her new studio at

                                                                  the Toronto Islands (for a preview: www.katherinedolgyludwig.com).

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I met a Toronto actor who told me that when he was just starting out in London, he knew Peter Doig.  They had both just come over from Toronto to that premier city of theatre and painting, full of hope.  Each didn't have much, but they thought

it was worth throwing themselves into their work and taking a chance.  Sometimes in London when I was carrying heavy portfolios of paintings in my arms with the kids hungry trailing behind me in the rain  through those streets at night, I would

 think of Peter Doig and his ski hills and trees and hippies paddling on Canadian lakes.  If I think about all the memories that are held in one person, and that each image painted is a notation for all that is recalled, I know I am lucky to be an artist. 

Life is short and Art is long, and whether it be said by Hippocrates or Longfellow, I think it's important to take a chance.

Peter Doig's Angel, watercolor on acidfree paper board, 40x60in, Toronto Island-(c) 2004 Katherine Dolgy Ludwig

 

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