| For more information about this article or gallery, please call the gallery phone number listed in the last line of the article, "For more info..." |
January Issue
2009
Artists' Guild
of Spartanburg in Spartanburg, SC, Features Works by Linda Hudgins
The Artists' Guild of
Spartanburg is presenting the exhibit, Contemporary Cave Paintings,
featuring works by Linda Hudgins, on view at the Guild Gallery,
located at the Chapman Cultural Center in Spartanburg, SC. The
exhibition will be on view through Jan. 29, 2009.
Hudgins' works are large, colorful abstracts created using oil
and acrylic paints and pastel drawings done as copies of segments
of her own paintings. The artist describes the subject matter
as "totally nonobjective abstractions" using brilliant
colors and lively shapes and spaces.
Hudgins likens her studio in Tryon, NC, where she does her work to a primeval cave, a space that recreates the aura of exploration of the unconscious and joy of discovery that she envisions even the earliest cave painters felt. "Caves are indeed places of storytelling and places for hidden treasure," the artist says, alluding to both Jungian philosophy and ancient Greek mythology to support her feeling that her studio is a "cave" in which she can explore her unconscious.
"I too tell stories and find hidden treasures. I too encounter ignorance and witness the birth of deities. It's a domain of being so personal it can never be fathomed by consciousness. Art is its only language, as cave painters have always known," says Hudgins.
Hudgins was born in Converse, SC, and earned a bachelor's degree at Converse College and a master's at Rhode Island School of Design. She pursued a broad range of studies not only in the United States but in such different locales as Guilin, China, where she studied Chinese decorative style painting under an instructor. Over a period of several years, she has studied pottery, beadwork, printmaking and weaving in Francistown, Botswana. Most recently the well-traveled artist studied batik techniques in Ghana, West Africa.
An art educator as well as an artist, early in her career Hudgins taught at Spartanburg Day School as well as Woodruff and Jenkins junior high schools. She has also taught for three years in Botswana and four years in Guilin and Shenzhen in China.
For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings or contact Laura Pinkley at 864/764-9568.
Carolina Arts is published monthly by Shoestring Publishing Company, a subsidiary of PSMG, Inc. Copyright© 2009 by PSMG, Inc., which published Charleston Arts from July 1987 - Dec. 1994 and South Carolina Arts from Jan. 1995 - Dec. 1996. It also publishes Carolina Arts Online, Copyright© 2009 by PSMG, Inc. All rights reserved by PSMG, Inc. or by the authors of articles. Reproduction or use without written permission is strictly prohibited. Carolina Arts is available throughout North & South Carolina.