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DCWall, watercolor, 7’4″×12’6 (four walls 7’4″×50′), 2026

Painting at the RBG memorial SCOTUS, 2020

Washington DC Streets
DCWall Installation
U.S. Ambassador’s Residence, Ottawa
Florida Beach Landscapes
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Katherine Dolgy Ludwig – Expressing Light Everywhere

“All my work is in person. Relationship is everything to me. The art is a record of an authentic way of living by painting life.”

Original Paintings and Popular Objects by Katherine Dolgy Ludwig, a Brooklyn artist who has worked for over thirty years in the U.S., Canada, England, and France. Founder and CEO of KDL INTL LLC, as Ludwig Pictures and Ludwig Express, she furthers projects that develop her paintings into public installations and murals, architecture, commercial exhibitions, fashion products, licensing projects, publishing and producing in music, film, and television.

BRIC Media Studio, Brooklyn, 2024, photo by Shem Pennant

With over twenty solo shows — from large public venues to intimate settings — her openings are known for connecting strangers. Recent Solo Retrospectives were held at the American University of Paris and London’s Chelsea Arts Club.

Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Art in America, and the Los Angeles Times, with honors from jurors at the Metropolitan Museum, Brooklyn Museum, A.I.R. Gallery Chelsea, and the London Royal Academy. Her art lives in the permanent collections of Mayor Bloomberg, the Pentagon, the National Arts Club, the Globe Theatre, Ornette Coleman, and Pete Townshend.

She built her reputation painting portraits on-site in private homes and landscapes in the Canadian forest. Mid-career, she turned to giant watercolors made on-site in Brooklyn — experimenting with sound, music, and text — work that came to define her U.S. career.

Painting razor wire fencing around the Capitol building on camera, Washington DC, 2020

“Working on paper allows me to go quietly into situations to make sense of them by painting as a frontline on-site reporter.

“These are 6 of 50 giant watercolors all made live in Bushwick in the midst of music: Hvns2Btsy!Time&Love:

Hvns2Btsy!Time&Love, watercolor, 40x60in

BrooklynFunkUniverse:

ConcreteJungleBoogieCreationStory:

CrazyLove4ThisTown:

DoYourThingInAmerica:

and the 5 ft x 10 ft triptych Howl!:

Installation of Just American Words at A.I.R. Gallery Chelsea New York

Painting in the cordoned street to get a glimpse of the back of SCOTUS and the Capitol beyond.

“Series of paintings of music in the streets, led to painting the streets themselves, and then the bridges, and places that have meaning for us all:

Painting the London bridges series during my Chelsea Arts Club Solo Retrospective, here Southwark Bridge, watercolor 22x30in — Painting London’s Southwark Bridge, during my Solo Retrospective at the Chelsea Arts Club.

“And many painting of the streets in France:”

Theo and Vincent Van Gogh’s Last Church, Auvers-sur-Oise, France, watercolor, 30x22in

“On my bike without a plan, ! hunt for paintings in the streets of New York, Paris, London, Ontario‘s countryside, and on Toronto Island. For New York Armory Week, I exhibited at the Clio Art Fair, winning awards for Etching, Lithography, and Painting at the League Print Exhibition. I have painted the beaches of the Gaspé Peninsula, Québec, and Florida, and contributed to Nashville’s “My View from Home Mail Art” project, featured in press and on television. My DC reportage paintings led to an on-site interview with DC News Now reporter Mariel Carbone on July 10, 2026, and an interview with CBS WUSA News 9 reporters Rebecca Knier and John Henry on January 7, 2021. Seeing my DC paintings, Pete Townshend commissioned a painting for his music project The Age of Anxiety. I have since painted in Toronto, Florida, New York, and the Adirondacks. At my American University of Paris Solo Retrospective, I gave this the AUP interview.”

Painting at the RBG memorial SCOTUS.

ABOUT tells you how I became an artist and what I do:

RESUME and PRESS and ARTICLES.

PEOPLE are portraits. Availability here.

PLACES are landscapes and cityscapes. Availability here.

THINGS are still life. Availability here.

WORD are text paintings. Availiability contact.

Must credit me if any of my art images or my likeness are used on social media. Everything on this website is 2002-2026©KatherineDolgyLudwig

People

I have painted hundreds of portraits and these are some.

Sometimes these are about individual personalities, like this oil portrait of Connie in Manhattan, which shortlisted in London UK for both the National Portrait Gallery Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award, and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

And this large oil portrait of a woman in a New York studio.

A spontaneous watercolor of Sofia in her own room.

And here is an oil portrait of Claudia on Toronto Island.

And three giant watercolor portraits of Sofia on Toronto Island.

And a giant watercolor portrait of Richard and Charles at home.

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Places

I made this series of six paintings of the view of the Statue of Liberty and the Manhattan Skyline sitting on the docks at Staten Island from midday until night — it was so beautiful and I felt new in New York. Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked for my images to represent Immigrant Heritage: they appeared citywide on screensavers, posters, and stationary, and were featured in two articles in the New York Times.