L udwig Schwarz doesn’t take himself too seriously. The Dallas-based multidisciplinary artist possesses a unique sense of humor that’s in the same artistic neighborhood as Mark Flood, Richard Prince, Fischli/Weiss, and David Shrigley. His interest in experimentation has fueled his various art projects. Schwarz’s latest show of paintings, Mountain View , is currently exhibited at Conduit Gallery in Dallas through October 4.
In his 2016 exhibition Desktop at Conduit, Schwarz conceptually reimagined the fusion of art and technology by focusing on the idea of a ubiquitous desktop.
“A desktop can be anywhere. In my mind, it’s really just a pivot point,” he wrote in an exhibition text entitled Notes on Desktop . He also states, “…most everything seems to be in a state of indexing, proce