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ARTIST'S STATEMENT
In a time when science is beginning to give us the capacity to choreograph
our bodies, what new forms will our desires create? My current artwork
offers a melancholy answer to this question. Hyperbolic and transfigured,
the characters in my paintings conjure a fictional culture after
some great cataclysm. Within and beyond this narrative, my paintings
speak to the complexity of basic humanity, its vulnerability, beauty
and enigma. I compose fanciful dramas amongst the various figures
that hint at feelings of tenderness, fear and erotic sensuality.
My exploration of these issues is wedded to the process of painting.
For me the nature of painting is a catalytic process of generating
and conceptualizing forms. I resolve these forms into an image that
is a personalized language-content. In my work I project a dialogue
of looking as an alternative to understanding.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
2003
- Zounds, group show, Hyde Park Arts Center, Hyde Park, IL
- Here and Now, group show, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign,
IL
2002
- Heterology, one-person show, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago,
IL
- The Perception of Appearance: A Decade of American Contemporary
Figure Drawing, group show, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, catalog
2001
- Small Paintings, group show, Weber State University, Art Gallery,
Ogden, UT
1999
- Requiem: Living Artists Eulogize a Dying Century, curated
by artist collective TABOO, Nexus Contemporary Art Center. Atlanta,
GA
1998
- New Paintings, one-person show, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago,
IL
1997
- Magical Realism, group show, Indiana University, Gallery Northwest,
curated by Drs. Patricia Lundberg and Roberta Wollons
- Figure 8, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, catalog
1996
- Disjecta, one-person show, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago,
IL
- The figurative Works of Tim Doud and Steven Hudson, College
of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
1995
- Contemporary Art Series #5: Steven Hudson, one-person show,
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL, catalog
- Allegorical Landscape, group show. Suburban Fine Art Center,
Highland Park, IL
1993
- Paintings for the Millennium, one-person show, Peter Miller
Gallery, Chicago, IL
- Urgent Nostalgia, group show. Center on Contemporary Art,
Seattle, WA
- Drawing on the Figure, group show, Carlsten Art Gallery, University
of Wisconsin
- The Eidetic Image: Contemporary Works on Paper, group show.
Krannert Art Museum. Champaign, catalog; traveling to: Newport
Harbor An Museum, Newport Beach, CA; Everson Museum of Art.
Syracuse. NY; University of Oklahoma Museum of Art, Norman;
1 Space Gallery, Chicago, IL
AWARDS
- 2003 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship
- 1994 Arts Midwest, National Endowment for the Arts
- 1990 Masters Fellowship, Southern Illinois University
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