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Hutsien Hodges Hursh was born in Mexico City in 1957. Her father is an
abstract artist in Mexico, having studied at the Black Mountain College
in North Carolina and the University of Texas. Hutsie’s parents divorced
when she was young, so she was unable to see much of her father or his
paintings. Hutsie graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Kansas
City Art Institute in 1979 with a major in Painting and Printmaking.
She, then, moved to Charleston, SC where she worked as a freelance
artist. There, she met Don and married in 1980 and started her family
with 2 children. The family moved to Greensboro, NC in the fall of 1986
and presently live on a small farm in McLeansville, NC, sharing their
home with a menagerie of animals.
Her
art has shown at the Kemper Gallery in Kansas City, Mo, juried shows in
Summerfield, SC, and Greensboro Artist League in Greensboro, NC. She has
had several one-person shows held at the Compton Gallery, The Artery in
Greensboro, and at the Rye Library in Rye, NY. Her work is in numerous
private collections in New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, California, Missouri, Indiana, Texas
and Mexico.
She has illustrated two
published children’s books and has taught private art lessons, as well
as arts and crafts classes at camps. In the mid 90’s she was
commissioned to paint an “art car” for a patron of the arts in
Greensboro. Recently she repainted the 1977 Cadillac in a whole new
theme of colors. In 2006 she was commissioned by the Moses Cone Regional
Hospital to develop and produce a series of large abstract murals for a
long hallway in the hospital. The work was completed by the patients and
their families and friends.
Hutsie works mostly in oil, watercolor, and pen and ink producing
mostly loosely-realistic paintings with an emphasis on color until the
year 2000. At that time she pulled her work out of the galleries and
shops to began to work in abstract paintings.
When
asked what her artistic statement would be, she replies:
“I
like to think of art as being everywhere. Everything seen and felt could
be a painting. Right now, in my abstract work, I like to work with the
colors and composition from things I feel. I like the idea that the
painting has a life of its own when it is not representational. It does
not tell the viewer what they should see, but lets the viewer find their
meaning. I like the fact that no matter what I am thinking about in the
painting or what it means to me, it will be different for everyone else
who looks at it. When someone buys one of my abstracts, they are buying
a painting that means something to them that comes from within their own
thoughts and feelings. I like to think that art can speak to everyone
from any background. My favorite artwork is the work children do before
they are taught that their work should look like something.”
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