Holly Hudson

Using hundreds of carefully curated cuttings, I seek to create collages that speak to the inter-connectivity between humans and their environment. Each piece consists of intricately constructed human figures made of images of flora and fauna, layered between multiple sheets of resin to create three-dimensional forms.
My earliest memories consist of my childhood in Southeast Alaska and the local Native American creation myths of shape-shifting entities that could be animal, plant, or human at will. After years of studying and then teaching figurative painting in the states and abroad, I returned to the Pacific Northwest and my love of nature and the stories of my youth were reignited. Armed with my anatomical studies, I began piecing together my own mythical creatures, both human and plant, wed by the repetition of organic patterns and structures.

My work explores humanity's relationship to nature, the repetition of organic forms, patterns, and structures that reoccur in the world around us as well as the world within us. I want to show the likenesses between the natural world and human anatomy: sticks as arteries, root systems as veins and capillaries, the knots and joints in wood as the knuckles, joints, and phalanges in...

2010 MFA, Painting, Cum Laude, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2002-2005 Aristides Classical Atelier, Gage Academy of Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2000 BA, Painting and Drawing, Fairhaven College, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
1996 – 2005 Master Classes, Gage Academy of Fine Art, Instructors: Steven Assael, Juliette Aristides, Rita Natarova, Barbara Fugate, Charles Emerson, Jerry Weiss, Tony Ryder, and Jeffery Lawrence.

2020 Solo Exhibition, Flex Gallery at Smith and Vallee, Edison, WA
2019 “Human Nature”, Amazon, Seattle, WA
2014 "Take Home a Nude", Sotheby's New York, NY
2013 "Water & Wood", Solo Exhibiton, Winslow Art Center, Bainbridge Island, WA
2012 “Elegantly Wasted”Littlefield Performance + Artspace, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Eden Rock Gallery with Jason Bereswell, St. Barth's
2011 Flowers Gallery Summer Exhibition, New York, NY, Jurors Carter Foster and Julie Heffernan
2011 “Fa-sad”, Kleio Projects, New York, NY
2010/2011/2012 “Take Home a Nude”, Sotheby's, New York, NY
2010 New York Academy of Art Summer Exhibition, Jurors Kurt Kauper, Clarissa Dalrymple, and George Adams 2010 ”Sight on Site”, District and Co. The Gallery, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2010 “Off The Wall”, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
2009 New York Academy of Art Summer Exhibition, Juror Eric Fischl
2008 “New Works”, Zeitgeist Gallery, Seattle, WA (solo) ...