Robert Hudson’s exhibition at Patricia Sweetow Gallery coincides with the unveiling of a major commission of new work at One Hawthorne, a residential high rise located on the corner of Hawthorne Lane and Howard Streets in San Francisco. The exterior installation,145 feet tall by 12 feet wide, is a vertical mural comprised of multiple porcelain enamel panels, reproducing a series of 30 x 23 inch pen and ink drawings created by Hudson for this project. Spanning 16 floors, it is located on the eastern facade of the building and is appropriately titled Landmark.
Born in 1938, Robert Hudson is celebrated as one our foremost American sculptors. He began exhibiting in 1958, and has punctuated his career with collaborations with lifelong friends William Wiley, Richard Shaw and William Allen. Hudson attended the San Francisco Art Institute, where he eventually taught for several years before joining UC Berkeley’s Art Department as a faculty member.
In 1985, Hudson had a survey exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His painterly sculptures and complex constructions incorporating found objects, paintings on canvas, and works on paper, referenced not only the political environment, but also echoed his Pacific Northwest origins.
For this exhibition, Robert Hudson exhibits work from the last 2 years. From modest scale, to over 5 feet, the sculptures have resolved into inventive elegance. The welded cast iron, porcelain enamel, and stainless steel sculptures offer graceful interaction of form with color and the playful spin of kinetic energy. Hudson’s pen and ink drawings mirror the strength of his sculpture, with repetitive spiraling forms that force the eye to trace their voyage on paper.
Robert Hudson is represented in numerous national and international collections including, MoMA, New York; SFMoMA; Oakland Museum; Whitney Museum; Los Angeles County Museum; the de Young Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; The Smithsonian National Gallery; the Chicago Art Institute; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. In the San Francisco Bay Area, the diRosa Preserve has 25 Robert Hudson sculptures on view.
Exhibition Dates: March 20 – May 15, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 20th from 2 – 4:30 pm
Patricia Sweetow Gallery
77 Geary, Mezzanine
San Francisco, CA 94108
Gallery Hours: Tu – F: 10:30am – 5:30pm; Sa: 10:30am – 5:00pm
Press release and image provided by the gallery.
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