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Cody Hudson — Forever Mountain Meaning (Redux)

Louis Buhl & Co. is pleased to present a new diptych edition titled Forever Mountain Meaning (Redux) with artist Cody Hudson. Hudson’s use of graphic lines and bright colors inspire a story of longing and hope, while also finding context within contemporary abstract painting. The artist is interested in the elemental use of shape as a signifier, but goes further by allowing the forms to be direct extensions of the painting’s poetic content. ⠀

In Forever Mountain Meaning (Redux), Hudson extracts elements from the natural world and reimagines them into simplified geometric shapes that work together to form a harmoniously expressive composition. Employing bold blocks of color, the works are mutually informed by Hudson’s external environments and his internal reflections. Complete with abstract figuration illuminating nature’s impact on the mind, Forever Mountain Meaning (Redux) captures the artist’s vacillating feelings throughout the prints’ period of creation.

3-color Hand-Pulled Screen Print on Stonehenge Cream 250gsm.
Deckled, numbered, and signed by the artist.
Each print is 16h x 12w inches
Edition of 35

Asterisk* Chronic Fog

Graphics for Juicy J’s new signature strain Chronic Fog. Worked on graphics for the Asterisk strain, a collection of clothing, and graphics for a limited drum and loop kit.

PBS American Portrait Mural

I was recently asked to be a part of a mural project inspired by submissions to the PBS American Portrait website and show. My mural based on a quote about Hope from Dana S. is currently in Dallas. Big thanks to the PBS and to James and the crew at Radical Media for asking me to be a part of it. Check out www.pbs.org/american-portrait/murals for more info.

Hotdog Energy Fruit

The first object released by Hotdog Energy Fruit is a wearable ceramic sculptural piece entitled Earth Planet Archive by Chicago artist Cody Hudson. The piece is fired on white clay with speckled blue glaze with subtle hints of green and measures 2 3/4" in diameter. Each piece is packaged in a hand-stamped clam shell box containing a sticker and risograph print by the artist. Three color-ways were produced in this small run.

Please note that there are color and crackle variations on each and every piece as is the nature of ceramics.

Available HERE.

Closed-Eye Hallucination Zine from Caboose

A series of drawings based on the visions one see's when when one's eyes are closed.

28 Pages
3 Color Riso
First Edition
2021

Available HERE.

SEE SAW at THESE DAYS LA

This weekend Louis M Schmidt and Nathaniel Russell’s exhibition SEE SAW  opens at These Days in Los Angeles, California. It’s been interesting, challenging and everything else communicating from afar while making work for the show and we decided to ask some of our friends to send us a piece for a group show within our two-person show, in the spirit of the see saw: rising and falling, high and low, our connection and dependency. we are glad so many people could participate and are pleased to present our show-within-a-show-that-is-also-part-of-the-show. 

participating artists:

Michelle Blade @michelle_blade

Erin Bowers @homecomingspirit

Thomas Campbell @thomascampbellart

Kris Chau @chaufacetime

CJ Coccia @cjcoccia

Michael Dumontier @stoppingoffplace

Kyle Field @regularlittlewings

Cody Hudson @struggle_inc

Rich Jacobs @movezine

Chris Johanson @chrisjohansonart

Johanna Jackson @goody_jackson

Tim Kerr @movetk

Michael Krueger @michael_krueger_studio

Lookout & Wonderland @lookoutandwonderlandstudio

Brian Lotti @brianlotti

Bill McRight @bill_mcright

Tucker Nichols @tuckernichols

Casey O'Connell @mscaseyo

Shaun O’Connor @shaun_oconnor

Lydia Maria Pfeffer @lydiamariapfeffer

Joel Rockey @joeldavidrockey

Andrew Scott @andrewmartinscott

Johanna St. Clair @little_sketchy

Ruben Ortiz Torres @desmothernista

Chris Vorhees @chrisvorhees

opens saturday April 3rd

contact @thesedays.la to schedule a viewing appointment

@bridgethevoid

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.