LOCATION: Mexican Radio (just outside to the left of the building) 537 Warren Street

VIEWABLE: Noon till 11pm daily

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: "THE MOUNDS"

Ingrid Ludt’s process stems from a desire to question her place in the world as artist and individual. With this project, the artist is exploring her relationship to both political and societal power and how this affects her concept of freedom. Her goal is to create an art experience that undermines the constraints and oppression associated with these structures and practices. This piece is supported with an original score composed by David Smooke.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Ingrid Ludt was born in Skaneateles, New York. She studied design at Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY) and received her B.F.A. with honors in 1992. Upon graduation, she worked in the publishing industry in New York before moving out West to pursue art direction and design in Portland, Oregon. In 2002, she moved back East to begin graduate studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York (Albany, NY). She completed her M.F.A. in 2004.

Ludt lives in Upstate New York where she divides time between creating her own work, teaching drawing (professor at the University at Albany) and freelance curatorial projects. Jenny Holzer curated her work into a show at The Contemporary Artist's Center (North Adams, MA) in May 2005. Ludt screened her first video "Preserving Liberty Part I" (influenced by drawing) in the exhibit "Out of Context" at Art Omi International Arts Center (Ghent, NY) in June 2006. Also that year she was awarded an SOS grant from NYFA. Most recently Ludt was selected for exhibitions at Saratoga Arts Center (Saratoga Springs, NY) and Tacoma Contemporary (Tacoma, WA) both in Fall 2008. A solo exhibition of her work opens in March 2008 at Berkshire Community College (Pittsfield, MA).