Painting Time: Moments, 2020

Archival digital print on photo rag

22" x 26" x 1.5"

Framed and matted

Carol Ladewig is a painter best known for her ambitious "Painting Time" series, beginning with "Year in Color 2011" in which she painted one 6 x 6-inch color field painting each day and assembled them into a concrete expression of the passing of a year's worth of time. This was the centerpiece of a solo exhibition at Slate Contemporary in Oakland and accompanying catalog "Painting Time" (2013). This work represents the essence of an art practice rooted in diaristic writing and drawing, reflecting Ladewig's interest in memory and everyday lived experience, and draws from a profound engagement with pigment and color-mixing.

Continuing through 2020, Ladewig experimented with differing approaches to this laborious, serial method of constructing a painting. These began with more abstract, process-based methodologies, including "Year in Color: Lunar Phases" (2012) and "Painting Time: Season, Winter 2016", recently featured in the article "Time is an Object" (American Scientist, September/October 2023), which addresses the physical nature of time.

Painting Time: Moments July 2013 is a archival digital print on Photo Rag. In 2013 the panels (5"x 5" of varying depths) were mounted on a panel in the shape of each month.