Ludwig Schwarz

Thursday, October 27, 2005, 6:00 pm

Artist's Talk and Screening of The Who's Tommy

Ludwig Schwarz, Untitled (Family Portrait), 2005. Oil on Canvas, Edition 1/4 (painted in China), 72" x 72". Courtesy the artist and Angstrom Gallery, Dallas.

Ludwig Schwarz was born in 1964 in Dallas where he continues to live and work. He received his BFA in 1986 from Southern Methodist University, Dallas. He completed his MFA in 1990 at the School of Visual Arts, New York. He has had notable solo exhibitions at Angstrom Gallery, Dallas; the McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas; and Three Walls, San Antonio. He also had a solo exhibition at Freight + Volume Gallery, New York, in the fall of 2005. Schwarz has presented exhibition projects in collaboration with commercial enterprises such as Rent-A-Center (in Rentown, Angstrom Gallery, 2001), and Village Pawn Shop and Jewelry in Dallas where he presented the site-specific installation, The Jerk, in 2003. Schwarz's work has been included in numerous group exhibitions at The Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont; DiverseWorks, Houston; Artpace, San Antonio; PS1, New York; ICA, London; American Fine Arts, New York; Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh; Kunstbunker Tumulka, Munich; and Smart Museum, Chicago, among others. In the past few years, his work was presented at the Scope Art Fair, New York, 2002; the NADA Art Fair, Miami, 2004, and The Armory Fair, New York, 2005 with Angstrom Gallery. He has received a number of awards and grants including the 2005 Moss-Chumley Award, Meadows Museum of Art, Dallas and the 2001 Dozzier Travel Grant, Dallas, Museum of Art. Ludwig Schwarz is represented by Angstrom Gallery, Dallas and Q.E.D., Los Angeles.