The Ecology Center Journal

Did a little interview with the friends at The Ecology Center on their blog. Check it out here and also check out some of he new t-shirts i designed for them below as well.

ONDO

Logo design for ONDO Holistic Sound based in Hong Kong.

ONDO sessions are a natural gateway toward meditative states and cell stimulation, the ONDO holistic sound sessions are specifically designed with an aim to trigger the body and mind’s innate self-healing capabilities through aural stimulation and physical vibration.

More info HERE.

Photography: Shane Aspegren

Isolation Tank

Cody Hudson, Isolation Tank (online Exhibition)
January 30 – February 26, 2021
Andrew Rafacz Gallery

All of these numbered days that settle in to us, as we glean bits of hope from the perseverance of our continued routines. We find solace in these rituals; we push against the madness of the day.

The sun on our sky’s dome has reached its farthest southward point. The days are getting longer again.

Isolation Tank presents a series of new sculptures from the artist, utilizing forms that long for meditation, serenity and the beauty of the natural world.

The continued comfort of a horizon line. We float gently towards that which keeps us pulsing forward.

Created in the final days of 2020, this series of new powder-coated steel works dives further into the formal visual language that Cody has developed over the last few years. They also expand on that language in response to the unique time in which we find ourselves. Many of his familiar elements are present here: foliage, microdot, abbreviated landscape, and abstracted figure. A sense of longing and alienation is subtly woven into his narrative.

Seclusion, protraction, rotation, extraction.

Cody Hudson currently splits his time between Chicago and rural Wisconsin. He presented a solo exhibition, I Have No One But You, at the gallery last summer.

Every Shape is a Flower

New Riso print with the nice folks at Fisk Gallery in Portland as part of their Every Shape is a Flower project.

Basement Escape Plant (Sensory Delusions), 8.5x11", 3 color CMYK risograph print on 130lb cover. Printed by NOOR.

25% of proceeds will support the FISK Creative Work Award; a new mentorship program which provides a stipend for emerging designers and artists to collaborate with FISK on the production of new creative work. 
More info HERE.

Recent Sculpture

Recent sculpture commissioned by Johalla Projects for a Chicago client.

GLASS CASE OF EMOTION w/ Guerrero Gallery

January 23rd - March 13th
Guerrero Gallery

Umar Rashid. Sofie Ramos. Nick Makanna. Maryam Yousif. Adam Beris. Adam Miller. Cody Hudson. Terry Powers. Terri Friedman. Matt Craven. Josh Reames. Craig Calderwood. Julie Henson. Johnny Abrahams. Patrick Martinez. Keith Boadwee.

Among a series of truths, the pandemic has made abundantly clear that so much of our lived days are mediated, experienced and augmented by the screens that create and insulate our realities. Our professional, social and leisurely impulses and obligations all pass through thin pieces of glass into machinery and networks far more complex than most of us can comprehend. Much like Ron Burgundy bemoans, stuck in a phone booth in the 2004 classic Anchorman, we are all essentially stuck in a glass case of emotion. Given our predicament how then do we work within the constraints in which we’ve found ourselves, how do we create art, forms and spaces for viewing that are accessible and relevant to this unending echo chamber in which we find ourselves? In an idealistic sense, art and its enjoyment has always represented a kind of freedom, even if it only be in an imaginative way, yet is that reality even possible at a time in which we are all stuck in a sense, for our own safety sacrificing so many freedoms that were once simply given? 

Perhaps we must first look at the art historical underpinnings of the moment, works that provide some context to our stuckness within this glass box and to our multiple realities that live within and outside of it. A few touch points from nearly a century ago come to mind, whether it be Duchamp’s realms of abstracted figures and desire housed within The Large Glass or the meta commentary woven through Magritte’s surrealist compositions. The Large Glass or The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, Duchamp’s work completed between 1915 and 1923, consists of large panes of glass that have been altered with a variety of untraditional materials depicting separated domains, the lower portion showing abstracted figures or “bachelors” flanked by odd representations of machinery all directing their attentions to the “bride” floating in a section above these disconnected souls below, veins of broken glass incurred in a shipping accident and other alterations to the surface all heightening the cacophonous and absurdly irrational scene. Magritte’s works such as The Human Condition (1933), The Palace of Memories (1939) and The Fair Captive (1947), all landscape paintings that feature a layering of sceneries, a painting on an easel that both obstructs the landscape behind it and acts as a continuation of that same landscape or a barren topography framed by luscious theater drapes. As Magritte suggests in a letter to a friend, “This is how we see the world. We see it outside ourselves, and at the same time we only have a representation of it in ourselves”, a reality that has seemingly become all too true as our bodily and virtual realities become layered one over another. 

Glass Case of Emotion as an exhibition began as a prompt to a grouping of artists spanning the US from coast to coast–choose one recent work, photograph it and place that image on another image of the artist’s choosing, be that a familiar landscape or an unknown image taken from the web, the only criteria being that it resonate and speak some truth to the artist. The exhibition is an exercise and exploration in context, hoping to create spaces for works to “live” that connect with the reality of a given maker, crafting a composite image that can add to the life of the artwork on its own. Through this exercise an all new narrative and entanglement of meaning is created, both for the artists whose work it is and the online viewer on the receiving end halfway across the country, hopefully imbuing the whole process with some of the imaginative freedoms and pleasures that we all strive for in both creating and viewing art, all mediated by the glass screen in front of you from the safety of your own home.

Louis Buhl

New prints (and hand painted mono prints) releasing with Louis Buhl soon. For more info visit HERE and sign up for the mailing list.

Giveash*t

Jammed on a T shirt design for @giveashirtchicago . In the last 5 years they have been able to raise $140,000 for @streetwise_chi by printing and selling shirts. Check out the one I did and a bunch of others from fine Chicago folks at www.giveashirt.net

Hall of Flowers Blog

Did a little interview with the folks at Hall of Flowers. you can check it out HERE.

Comfort Station Chicago

For more info visit HERE.

Beyond The Streets 2020

I’ll be participating in the BEYOND THE STREETS virtual art fair on December 5th & 6th exclusively on the #NTWRK app. Download the free @ntwrk app now through your app store and follow the steps that proceed so you can tune in to all the exclusive video content and drops! Follow @beyondthestreetsart for more info. #beyondthestreets

Louis Buhl

Sculptural wood editions of mine spotted in the new Louis Buhl gallery / store.

more info on the can be found HERE.

Paradisia

4 September 2020 11-20h
5 September 2020 11-20h
6 September 2020 11-20h
Oetewalerstraat 73 in Amsterdam

Mini Galerie proudly presents the new group exhibition Paradisia. The exhibition showcases the works of twenty national and international artists, all of whom see the natural world as a potent source of their creativity and artistic practice.  As the world around us teters in uncertainty, one can be sure to find solace in the botanical world. Our contributing artists, half of whom have never been shown at Mini Galerie before, were all asked to submit artworks dealing with nature as a central theme. The work shown is therefore our attempt at demonstrating the ‘affect’ of nature on the human psyche.

Eight months ago Mini Galerie’s owners left the chaos of the city of Amsterdam behind and immersed themselves in the beauty and tranquillity of Friesland’s forests. Their time in nature has left them feeling recharged and rejuvenated and they hope to bring that same feeling back to the city, with the help of nature’s most powerful spokesperson, art of course. Paradisia acts as a refuge from the city, a secret paradise garden where people can grow and nurture what is so often lost in a life apart from nature.

Participating artists: Cody Hudson, Merijn Hos + Ted Parker, B.D. Graft, Malin Gabriella Nordin, Jordy van den Nieuwendijk, Matthew Craven, Atelier Bingo, Jonathan Ryan Storm, Louis Reith, Joost Stokhof, Anouk Griffioen, Liesbeth Piena, Floor van het Nederend, Jordy Kerwick, Paul Wackers, Bradley Kerl, Tim Biskup, Nazif Lopulissa, Stephen Eichhorn and Emily Ferretti.

Please note, this exhibition is held at a new temporary location at Oetewalerstraat 73 in Amsterdam, and will not take place at the gallery’s former address on Kinkerstraat.

For more info and to see more of the show go HERE.

Cody Hudson for 3Sixteen

Fun collaboration thats been in the works for a bit is not out with the folks at 3Sixteen. You can see the photos, find out about the product and read the interview HERE.