artist bio
In 1999 Sarah
Hudgins came into her own as an artist when her work was included in a show
at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago in association with the National
Order of the Lampreys. Since then she has been dedicated to producing
private commissions and work for gallery shows. Her subtle abstractions
have appeared in 23 shows around the country. Sarah has received
notable awards and has had her work published internationally.
Born in Austin, Texas but raised in Hawaii, Mexico and Indiana,
Sarah has a keen eye for cultural distinctions that many people think
are disappearing. She is fascinated by communication and information
flow. Her imagery grows
from flowing water, air movement and the architecture
in her current home of Chicago. She is always considering the ways
that
differences
between people and objects influence their interaction.
While studying in the art department of Eckerd
College with the original founders of the school, she
developed a solid foundation for the practical work of making
art and the importance of hanging
on to the dream. But when she studied at Studio NIBE in Florence,
Italy she was awakened to the nobility of painting.
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago was a completely different
kind of art education. The turmoil of being around all artists
all the
time made her head spin with theory and practice. She loved the environment
and was intrigued by conflicts between genre and style. The
presentation of dichotomies fueled her curiosity to understand how divergent
entities struggle for equilibrium. This was when she began formulating
aesthetic presentations for those parts of the world that stimulated her intellectually.
Sarah's work spans many arenas. She received
accolades for her set design of the world premier of Jacob’s
Daughter, a stage
interpretation of best selling novel The Red Tent. Her series Code appeared
in Public Culture, a Duke University
Press publication. And she was selected to design and produce murals
for University of Illinois at Chicago that
appear in the Hollywood hit film Stranger
than Fiction.
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