Carol Ladewig

Carol Ladewig is a painter best known for her ambitious Painting Time series, beginning with Year in Color: 2011, in which she painted one 6 x 6 inch color field painting each day and assembled them into a concrete expression of the passing of a year’s worth of time. This was the centerpiece of a solo exhibition at Slate Contemporary in Oakland and accompanying catalog “Painting Time” (2013). This work represents the essence of an art practice rooted in diaristic writing and drawing, reflects Ladewig’s interest in memory and everyday lived experience, and draws from a profound engagement with pigment and color-mixing.

Continuing through 2020, Ladewig experimented with differing approaches to this laborious, serial method of constructing a painting. These began with more abstract, process-based methodologies, including Year in Color: Lunar Phases (2012) and Painting Time: Season, Winter 2016, recently featured in the article “Time is an Object” (American Scientist, October, 2023), which addresses the physical nature of time.

As the series progressed, it began to incorporate representational elements, including Painting Time: Days (2015), which features subjects drawn from domestic life and the studio, harkening back to Ladewig’s m...

MFA: California College of Arts and Crafts
BA: University of California, Berkeley

Solo Exhibitions
2019
Carol Ladewig: Paintings and Prints, Panorama Framing, Oakland, CA
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

Group Exhibitions
2024
Series & Repetition, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Juried by Yulia Topchiy, www.sitebrooklyn.com/series-and-repetition
Kala at 50, Benefit Auction, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Reflections of Nature, Spring Showcase at Cafe Leila, Berkeley, CA
39th Positive/Negative Juried Exhibition, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2023
A Gathering of Color, Falkirk Art Galleries, San Rafael, CA
Red Dot Miami, Jen Tough Gallery, Miami, FL
Art San Diego, Jen Tough Gallery, San Diego, CA
All About Women, Marin Society of Artists, MSA Virtual Gallery
Art for Aids, Alliance Health Project Fund Raiser, San Francisco, CA
Roll Call: Faculty & Staff at Los Medanos College Art Gallery, Pittsburg, CA
Carol Ladewig, Rhythm at Cafe Leila, Berkeley, CA
The Autumn Collective 2023, Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Art Santa Fe Art Fai...