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)

There are always a lot of plans, but in the end I find sometimes you just make a bunch of paintings/performances inspired in the moment, then pull together whatever works for the show.   The focus now is FaithPainting, EveryOneWhoHelpedMeGetMy01Visa, and JustAmericanWords -- May 1, 2008 all three projects will show together at A.I.R. Gallery Chelsea, along with videos of OneGRRLGal and SPLASH!, and May 8, 2008 I'll Co-Produce AIRPlay08 with Tevin Thomas, a new Biennial I'll come in to A.I.R. to do in subsequent skip years to feature innovative musical women's performances with painting, on video for the gallery feminist archive.

All the new projects began in 2003:  When the RIDER Project in New York City had my work in two shows September and October 2006, where I made on street Watercolor/Performance, it was naturally a development of all the 'reportage' work discussed in my MFA at Chelsea College of the London Institute.  From work including street kids in Italy, police officers in London, naturists on the beach in Toronto, then on to New Yorkers in Bedford Stuyvesant, Williamsburg, Chelsea, Midtown, Harlem, even across from the Whitney Museum of Art and throughout Manhattan, I wanted to show work in adventurous situations with people that surprised me with their candor and personal beauty.  I enjoyed working also with a number of musicians.  I like art that is unpredictable.  I admire Chelsea College's commitment to stretching students and their way of perceiving a world we care about.  I support Michele Gambetta's vision for the populist trucking project she coordinates in this great city and country, bringing art Everywhere: I love making art in America! 

Artsweek was cancelled by the city of Toronto, but still every second year on Toronto Island we'll kickoff with a big party, at the LTT Biennial Salon at Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, featuring the work of our Long Term artists, a diverse group of working professionals with our studios here.  It's free, with ongoing presentations of music, wall art, sculpture, animations, sound art, puppetry, theatrical pieces, readings, and live rockin music from the Gas Station, dancing and drinking at the cash bar!  My work will be ongoing island site specific series: such as the Naturists, SPLASH! and upcoming My Other Island, paintings of Manhattan..  And in England, another island, I continue to make a lot of work in London, and to show and sell my paintings in a great city that's been so good to me.

PhD Research is ongoing because I can't stop doing everything all the time.  Along with painting I'm currently thinking about what teaching art means to me; whenever I'm there I'm building garden structures in wood, and writing/illustrating a graphic novel, writing more fiction again, publishing art critique, and taking up printmaking finally.  Along with raising the kids, training the new dog, learning to kayak between the island studio and mainland Toronto.

The Alicebot in Londonland project is an exciting endeavor, involving simultaneous shows in 3 major cities.  Logistically complex, difficult to physically manoeuver, and an intellectual obstacle course postulating the encounter between the digital and the sensate, but there's the fun of it.  I am in awe of Dr. Richard Wallace, the three-time Loebner award winner, and his A.L.I.C.E.   Here is a picture of Hugo Boo Chuffypants, our hedgehog.  Is  he thinking about Art or Mealworms?  Perfectly authentic in his responses, quills up or down, he gives an honest critique of his world.  Too bad the little feet can't push a paint brush around.

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