August 23 — October 4, 2025
Mountain View
Ludwig Schwarz
Ludwig Schwarz's paintings, though not didactic, compel the viewer to consider not only the composition on the picture plane, but what exists outside the boundaries of the canvas. His paintings defy expectations by interrupting serene color fields with rhythmic patterns ensconced along the edges of the image. His large scale oil on canvas works make up the exhibition alongside a series of small gouache "portraits" on linen.
Born in Dallas, TX, Ludwig Schwarz earned a BFA from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX and an MFA at the School of Visual Arts New York. Recent exhibitions include; Arrival, Departure, Arrival, 214 Projects, Dallas, TX (2019); Untitled (series of eight paintings), The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (2018); Some Twenty Year Old Works on Paper and Two New Sculptures, The Box Company, Dallas, TX (2017); Rest Stop, Makebish, New York, NY (2015); Encounters, Lump, Raleigh, N.C. (2015); Ludwig Schwarz: Retrospective (1990–2014), Oliver Francis Gallery, Dallas, TX (2014); the 2012 and 2010 Brucennial, NY; Galerie Carolyn Heinz, Hamburg, Germany (2011); Leo Castelli Gallery, NY (2011); Re-Seeing the Contemporary: Selected from the Collection, Dallas Museum of Art (2010); The New Authentics, The Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL and The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Walthum, MA (2008); Road Agent Gallery, Dallas, TX (2007); Freight and Volume, NY, NY (2005); Q.E.D., Los Angeles, CA (2005); Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX (2003) and Scope Art Fair (with Angstrom Gallery), Gershwin Hotel, NY, NY (2002). Ludwig Schwarz lives and works in Dallas, Texas. In an April 2014 feature about Schwarz, Dallas Morning News art critic Rick Brettell wrote of the artist, “I am surer than ever that Schwarz is a major artist. Indeed, he is quite possibly the most important painter who has lived in our city in the last generation…” In 2018, the Dallas Museum of Art acquired a suite of eight five by four-foot paintings from Schwarz’s 2016 Desktop exhibition.