Deedra Ludwig Works in Earth and Encaustic

LeMieux Galleries is proud to present artist Deedra Ludwig. Ludwig's paintings record environmental conditions over the world through the collection of soil, stone, minerals, plants, seeds and water. The collected materials are ground with a mortor and pestle then used with a base of wax and resin creating images ripe with texture and illuminated surfaces which are overlaid on handwritten texts. These notes are about the site data and her personal emotions about the situation.

Le Mieux Galleries is proud to present the recent works of Deedra Ludwig.
April 7-28, 2007 New Orleans, LA, USA

Inflorescentia traces the path of shifts in natural landscapes that were altered by floods and winds of Hurricane Katrina in coastal Louisiana. Artist Deedra Ludwig creates documentation of landscape with non traditional materials: soil, pollen, ground botanical specimens and found objects collected off the streets of the Lower 9th Ward, Gentilly and Plaqimines Parish, Louisiana. The combination of these materials in turn create a sublime environment that reminds the viewer that nature begins its recovery moments after disaster.
In her new work Ludwig opens wide the channel between human and natural consciouness. Her evocative ethos of haunting images gestures to us to participate with her in the numinosity of leaf, whorl and branch.

Ludwig is a recipent of the Everglades Artist in Residency program for the 2007 sessions. A gradute of New York University BFA and The University of Sussex MFA. Ludwig is committed to developing bodies of work that connect experiences in nature to the contemporary world of art while serving as documentation of diverse ecosystems. Influenced by the romantic landscape painter Turner, her works speak of a figural sense of beauty that draw the connection between mystical and the literal sense of place.