LUDVIC

LUDVIC is both a painter and sculptor who is known for the diversity of works he creates. His series of works are created -- at times exclusively and at other times simultaneously -- as large and small abstract paintings, still life food paintings, sculptures created from scrap metal, and more intimate sized pieces created from old American tools. His work has been featured in numerous museums and galleries nationally and internationally, including recent shows at the Hunterdon Museum of Art, the Noyes Museum of Art, the James Voorhees Zimmereli Art Museum, and the Montclair University Gallery.

Born in Sudan and raised in Cairo, Ludvic has a BA in Architecture. He continued his art studies in Europe and received his masters from Basel School of Art in Switzerland. While in Europe, he apprenticed with notable artists such as Karel Appel, Bram Bogart, and Marino Marini. In the 1970s in New York, he was an illustrator for several publications. In the latter part of the 1970s, he moved to Canada, residing in Ottawa for 13 years, where he exhibited extensively. In the mid 1980s, Ludvic opened a studio in New York City, where he began working on larger scale paintings. Currently, he lives and works in Arizona.

THROUGH THE DARKNESS: LUDVIC'S RHAPSODIES

Color, form and expression are the thematic threads that weave through a new series of abstractions, entitled Rhapsodies. In these mostly large canvases, Ludvic dynamically applies the paint using a trowel, employing this tool as a kind of surrogate brush to maneuver the paint. The artist's use of black as a resting point allows a contrasting field of space creating a rhythmic punctuation as the viewer moves from one area of the pictorial field to another.

Robert C. Morgan, PhD, writes in the catalog essay, “As with Hofmann, he is involved in a kind of push and pull process as he paints a corner or transforms the oblique angle into a more stable center ... It is through the elan vital that Ludvic seizes the moment of transcendence as a veritable sign of painting. This is the moment where the ordinary becomes extraordinary through the gravity of force that lends itself to the hand moving in simultaneous accord with his mind's eye."