Blogs: September

Tuesday, September 22, 2008

The Floods!

Thanks to what could only be global warming. Louisville has experienced weather of biblical proportions within the last year. Starting with Hurricane Ike and the ice storm shortly after, I lost a total of 14 days without power at the studio. Couple that with this Summer's significant rain fall and, well, you have trouble at the newly renovated Plexus studio.

Here is a video of my Sunday;-( Hope things are going better for you all.

Artist Bryce Hudson's studio leaks with flooding and biblical waterfall along the Ohio River ;-( from Bryce Hudson on Vimeo.

Monday, September 07, 2008

Culture.

It was a god Labor Day weekend. It started off with the First Friday Trolley/Gallery Hop where I met up with good friends and walked around and ran into more, even caught up with the long lost ones. There was a certain synergy in the air, it was a nice late Summer night, not hot, not cold. Perfect;-) First stop, The Green Building Gallery where I had to sign a few books just out called Louisville Counts! Very nice, moreover interesting because people had bid on my piece which was totally unexpected. Next on to Swanson Reed and Art Ecology where I saw some very good and fun work. Saturday was the World Fest where we gorged on international cuisine and that was followed by a kick-off concert for the Louisville Orchestra. Sunday was Looking Glass Alice at Actors Theatre. Monday, a day of rest for the most part, followed by dinner at home and domestic chores like cleaning up the basement since I've just completed cleaning it all up and painting the floors. Very good, cultured and productive day.

Here's the info on the book did an Illustration for:

22 Louisville Artists Contribute to Children’s Counting & Art Book Benefiting Art Sparks

Opening: September 4th, 2009 5-9pm
Through: September 25th, 2009

Louisville, KY- The Green Building Gallery, in conjunction with Holland Brown Books, will present a group exhibition opening Friday, September 4th featuring the 22 artists who contributed to Louisville Counts! A Children's Counting & Art Book. The book is a fundraiser for The Laramie L. Leatherman Art Learning Center (Art Sparks Interactive Gallery), the children's gallery at The Speed Art Museum.

Louisville Counts! A Children's Counting & Art Book, is a project that assembled willing Louisville-based artists to create unique, child-friendly pieces of art to accompany 22 pieces of Louisville trivia. Each piece corresponds with a specific number, from 0-21, encouraging the reader to count their way through the book using everything from Muth’s Candies to baseball bats to Olmsted parks and even disco balls! Participating artists include:   

The original artworks, on display September 4th - 25th, will also be sold in a silent auction beginning September 4th, and ending at the close of the show, September 25th. All proceeds from all sales of the book, as well as the gallery’s share of the sales of the corresponding artworks, go directly to Art Sparks. 

“Art Sparks fosters a sense of joy and wonder, inspiring a world of imagination and play. All ages will love exploring the Louisville artists featured in Louisville Counts.  The sense of visual playfulness makes it a fun book to share with the whole family”, says Cynthia Moreno, Director of Education at The Speed Art Museum.

The show will end with a closing party on September 25th from 5-9pm at The Green Building.

Tuesday, September 01, 2008

Busy Being Bryce.

It's been a busy time in my life - seems this happens expectedly in the Spring and the Fall - but I'm still here.

I've been working hard trying to save up the necessary funds to get the next set of prints framed. One could buy a car for the amount of framing I do on a yearly basis. This time the prints are relatively large (36" x 72"), floating in the frame with a white background. This means the overall size is about 8 inches larger than the print, one must pay for over sized pieces of just about everything to get it done. But, I can't have them any other way. I need to have them large and I will!

The latest print in the Holding Pattern series is Mary. The largest and most complex piece overall. I'm really happy with its outcome and now, I just want to see it completed!

A few great things have happened lately. The piece titled Constrain sold for more than any piece of my work had ever sold for. Commonwealth Bank also purchased four of the Equilibrium Deco prints for their corporate offices. Add that up with a string of sucessful web clients and one gets an overly busy creative force and one who has been sucessful in seeing that the execution of he next series of work will happen without a bump. I hope so anyway!

Traveling

I've also made weekend trips to Cleveland lately to secure some great pieces for my decorative arts collection. Anyone who knows me well knows that I am severly obsessed with chairs and top notch pieces of mid-century modern designed furniture. I got a dining set from 1947 to match with the one I already have so that I may have seating for 10 in the future (and have you over for dinner!). I am happy. I also went to Milwaukee Wisconsin for the first time to pick up my new car. Spent the night there and got to see several of the attractions. Most notably the Milwaukee Art Museum in downtown Milwaukee.

It was designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and came complete with several interesting exhibitions and was an architectural wonder. My friend Nico told me that the architect builds structures that mimic nature and animals. This one was obviously fashioned after a seagull. Imagine, a building, an art museum, fashioned after a bird. It was glorious. The space referenced a cathedral, with a roof that reached up to the sky with these rods that covered the roof, every morning they raise up into the sky (like wings of a bird) allowing natural light in. At six, when the museum closes every day, they close back up and the building shuts down. It was fantastic. View the photos here.

More creation

As you may well know. I'm also a web designer too. Life isn't life unless I'm actively creating something. Whether it be a painting, a print, photograph or website, I still cannot function without creating something everyday. This week, I was asked to redesign a website for a construction company. How on Earth does one make a web design company look "fly". So, naturally, I went looking at other websites for construction companies to get not only some inspiration, but to see for myself what makes a good one, and what makes a bad one. There's a lot of bad web design out there, but I think I hit the nail on the head! Made my clients happy and polished off another great piece for my portfolio. View it here.

Next...

Next are a series of experimental Equilibrium Deco prints. I enjoy working in series. That way I feel I never get really bored with one thing and can jump in and out of 4 or 5 things as I feel the need to. I did complete a Biracial painting, it's currently hanging in the studio. But what mostly interests me right now beyond the newly evolved Holding pattern print, is a new set of Equilibrium Deco prints. Which express anything but Equilibrium!

Bryce