Sara Ludy
Sara Ludy (b.1980, Orange, CA) is an American artist and composer working in a wide range of media including digital painting, animation, VR, websites, installation, and sound. Through an interdisciplinary practice, hybrid forms emerge from the confluence of nature and simulation to explore notions of immateriality and being.
Previous exhibitions of Ludy’s work include the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Vancouver Art Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, Berkeley Art Museum, and Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Her work has been featured in Modern Painters, The New York Times, Art Forum, Art in America, and Cultured Magazine. Sara lives and works in Placitas, New Mexico.
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Featured Artworks
In Clumps in a Meadow, Sara Ludy presents an informal composition of organic shapes bearing a high sense of touch. What we see is a continuation of Abstract Expressionists' focus on pure aesthetics. While the title refers to a scenic landscape, we recognise no symbolic objects or connection to our physical world. Iridescent light comes out of the canvas's top right to infuse the painting with a soft hazy touch, like in a dream. Colours, materiality and three-dimensionality bring viewers to gaze more deeply into the picture. While bright colours inhabit the canvas, bringing a sense of peace and calm. At ease, we explore a liminal space infused with digital materiality. We dive into a world where the organic and digital bind seamlessly into a new hybrid reality form.
Clumps in a Meadow
2019
Medium
In Untitled 5, Sara Ludy presents an informal composition of organic shapes bearing a high sense of touch. Protuberances of various sizes and colours intertwine to create a delicate texture. The artist highlights recesses and provides depth to the piece using green, blue, red, and pearl nuances. The colour palette and the surfaces' rugosity show a refined approach to new ways of painting through software. With her strong focus on digital materiality, Sara Ludy offers a continuation of Abstract Expressionists' work on pure aesthetics. As peace and calm inhabit the canvas, the viewer is at ease to explore its liminal space. We dive into a world where the organic and digital bind seamlessly.
Untitled 5
2020
Medium
The Foundry
Creating Abstract Work in the Digital Age
01/03/21
Online
“Creating Abstract Works in the Digital Age” is part of a series of four panels organised by MoCDA, UCL and Hobs3D to discuss the relationship between space and aesthetics.
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Abstract Art in the Age of New Media is a virtual group show curated by Serena Tabacchi and Marie Chatel featuring works by Banz & Bowinkel, Gibson / Martelli, Joanne Hastie, Harrison, Willmott, Aaron Scheer, Alex Reben, Arnaud Laffond, Chris Dorland, Casey Reas, Darcy Gerbarg, Brendan Dawes, Kjetil Golid, Mathieu Merlet Briand, Maurice Benayoun, Mario Klingemann, Shohei Fujimoto, Yoshi Sodeoka, Sara Ludy, Snow Yunxue Fu, Markos Kay, Damjanksi, David Young, Gordon Berger, Bård Ionson, Manfred Mohr, Robbie Barrat.
A multidisciplinary team headed by two UCL researchers has been awarded a research grant from the British Academy to unravel the psychology of how people view and remember artworks in a gallery. The collaboration between cognitive psychologists, cultural and digital sector professionals takes place in the context of an online shift for art collections worldwide.
An art gallery is a psychologically interesting place. Different art objects form a spatial layout, and visitors must navigate around the space to view the objects. The team’s previous research shows the spatial environment surrounding an artwork is implicitly integrated with our aesthetic responses to the work itself. Building on recent neuroscientific work on how the brain represents space, this new project will investigate how spatial layout of objects within a museum can influence different aspects of the viewer’s experience.
How does the position of each object within the gallery layout affect how much we like the object, and how well we remember it? The researchers conducted a number of online experimental studies, using specially-developed art exhibitions within a virtual museum. This project involved a unique collaboration between cognitive psychology researchers Dr Mariana Babo-Rebelo and Prof Patrick Haggard (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL), art curators Serena Tabacchi and Marie Chatel (MoCDAt) virtual reality expert Kadine James and artist and developer Allen Namiq (Hobs3D).