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| moderndallas.net Special “Eye” to Watch June Mattingly // contributing art writer Ludwig Schwarz The unassuming, low profile but extremely gifted Ludwig Schwarz, fortunately for his fans, continues to live and make art in Dallas where he was born in 1964. He studied at the School of the Chicago Art Institute, earned a BFA from SMU in Dallas and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Solo exhibitions on his biography comprise Three Walls, San Antonio, Diverse Works, Houston, Q.E.D. Los Angeles, Angstrom and Road Agent galleries in Dallas and the McKinney Avenue Contemporary. |
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| Group shows he’s been included in: Centraltrac, Dallas, the PS I in New York, the Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh and the Smart Museum in Chicago. In the year 2005 he was honored by being short-listed for Austin’s Arthouse’s $30,000 Texas Prize “the largest visual arts award for emerging artists in the United States.” |
| Schwarz, a prolific painter, primarily working in a painterly fashion in the traditional abstract and realism modes, using oil paint on canvas, presents his pleasurably obvious signature style while at the same time shows consistent originality and diversity in composition, skill with paint handling, and a focus on the medium and its wide open possibilities. |
| “Untitled,” 2009, 6x6 feet, oil on canvas, photograph courtesy of the artist |
| Celebrated for making large scale paintings his other distinct, personality/creative side continues to produce conceptually based, on the cusp art staging positively humorous but thought through critiques on the scenario of American consumerism and conventionality. These works, intentionally provocative as they are, purposefully encompass the viewer to in some way wonder about the point of the message and if there really is a planned one anyhow. |
| “Untitled (Family Portrait),” Ludwig Schwarz, 2005, oil on canvas, 72 x 72 inches, 2 channel video |
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