Bryce Hudson

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Bryce Hudson featured in: I Live in Louisville

by Leslie Lyons for I Live in Louisville May 2008

Bryce Hudson was one of a handful of local artists at the beginning of this decade who was taking responsibility for contemporary art in Louisville . . . before anyone seemed to care. 

With social struggles and modern American culture as his issues, Bryce would stage shows in downtown warehouses with peers who were aching to do the same thing. This proved to be an exercise in perfect timing and soon a community grew up around the scene with curators and collectors seeking local talent. 

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Velocity Magazine's selection of 2007 Movers and Shakers

by Javacia Harria for Velocity Magazine

Bryce Hudson has been battling racial issues nearly all his life.

He was adopted by a black family and raised in an upper-middle-class predominantly white environment. Hudson, who is biracial, identified more with being African-American, but growing up, many black kids told him that he sounded too white. Others mistook him for Latino or Asian.

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Studio Quality: Artists in their studios

November Issue of Louisville Magazine Photos by John Nation | Text by Jack Welch

From wall-to-wall immaculateness to variably managed clutter, here's a look at the studios of five of the city's veteran or up-and-coming artists.

If you find Bryce Hudson's Portland Studio to be a bit too antiseptic, it goes beyond the lab-coat-white walls and obsessively strait, clean lines of the minimalist painter's work. The building is a former medical center erected in 1926 and retains its tight corridors and crisply designed examining rooms.

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Art Features in Portland’s Effort at Neighborhood Renewal

by Elizabeth Kramer on April 23rd, 2008 for WFPL, Louisville's NPR affiliate

One of Louisville’s oldest neighborhoods is working to revitalize itself and art is playing a role. WFPL’s Elizabeth Kramer explored Portland for this report.

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Plexus Contemporary and Consuming Louisville's Neighborhood Project

by Michelle on February 15, 2008 for Consuming Louisville

A couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending an opening party for a new contemporary art space in the Portland neighborhood. Called Plexus Contemporary it's the brainchild of artist Bryce Hudson (and the product of lots and lots of his sweat equity). The party was fantastic, with fresh made crepes (so, so good) provided by Brian and Dana McMahan but it's the art space itself that I really want to talk about.

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