April 2 - April 27, 2013
SHEDMixed Media Collage by
TATE HUDSON
If our dreams are the clearinghouse of consciousness, then the brain must be the shed where memories, ideas and interactions are merely tucked away. Through nostalgia, a latent effect of these fragmented events, fleeting episodes are assembled into reminiscence. The extant, mental ephemera can be virtually discarded or, in the context of art, a new tangible form can take shape. The act of choosing, mixing, pouring and manipulating color on paper triggers memory and also produces imaginative thought.
Using collage as process, Hudson is assembling awareness, and the physical painting serves as host to a train of parasitic cognition. As individual pieces of paper are encoded and imbued with a personal sense of understanding, vibrant color acts as the representational vessel for informed exploration. Destroying the whole and cutting pieces for fodder is akin to shedding one's own skin.
The viewer is exclusively privy to the perceived, tangible figure but the images were once stripped clean... void of interpretation and naked to the bone. A constructed skin establishes context and form, and is then shed and another conscious cycle has begun.
Hudson was born on Portsmouth Naval Base, and spent his childhood bouncing between the rural/backwards hills of West Virginia and the culturally mixed/progressive leaning Norfolk Virginia. His unsettling upbringing coupled with the constant exposure to new influence and style helped shape the method in which he works today. Hudson currently lives and works in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, and finds the current comparable to Savannah Georgia where he spent eight years immersed in the creative culture.
Hudson generates his own source material for collage by initially painting on paper with highly diluted acrylic. Fabricating the elements affords greater color control, yields unique interactions, and creates exploratory opportunities. The imagery found in the work is derived from various sources including photographs taken by the artist. Blurring the boundaries between painter and collagist, Hudson embraces the clash of techniques, and produces painterly collage.
Public Reception:
SUNDAY, April 7th: noon-3pm
Free and Open to the public.
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