Richard Hudson
Overview
Peach, 2018
“My sculpture begins with an idea that surfaces in my imagination unannounced and sometimes uninvited. I start modelling the plasteline, clay, plaster or other materials to give this kernel shape and form, then at this point the final work manifests itself and materializes in my hands.
I remember as a child on our many walks together, my artist mother opening my eyes to the true organic wonders of the world; nature's complexity and it's never ending metamorphosis and yet normally within the structures of beautiful, perfect symmetry. She instilled in me the tenet of how one's originality stems from the line of a pencil, the stroke of a brush or from the forms that evolve from a sculptor's hands.
What I attempt to capture, to enclose, as a kind of homage, is a form around which on every surface it is possible to trace a continuous line that holds frozen in its moment, the flux, shape and movement of the billions of particles that nature draws together from their unbridled chaos to create pure natural beauty...that is the essence of my practice…”
--Richard Hudson
Works
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Richard HudsonPeach, 2018Polished Bronzeheight 78 3/4 inches
height 200 cmEd:3+2APSold
Biography
Creating polished works from marble, wood, steel, and bronze, Richard Hudson reinvents familiar sculptural tropes and addresses the evolving notion of beauty. A childhood steeped in nature left Hudson with an appreciation for organic forms, and so his sculptures are marked by fluid, pared-down human forms, also inspired by artists such as Henry Moore, Jean Arp, and Constantin Brancusi. Exploring and evaluating Western sculpture, Hudson puts a modern twist on beauty with surrealist forms that are simultaneously abstract and referential. Hudson believes that concepts of beauty are a reflection of the human condition, and are etched into the human psyche. Using a range of materials in a hands-on process and traditional techniques, Hudson’s sculptures are at once totemic and fetishistic, phallic and feminine, addressing ideas of money, power, and sexuality.