~ ~ Thomas Hudson studio journal ~ ~
I'm an idiot, but you already knew that. After writing about discovering Frederick Gaertner in this post, I belatedly realized I had seen--on numerous occasions, no less--one of his paintings at the Cleveland Museum of Art.…
Picasso said he became an artist because he wanted to have his own collection of paintings. That sounds apocryphal but if he didn't say it, he should have. I've been working on these pieces these…
In her show, Perennial Shift, at the William Busta Gallery, Julie Friedman exhibits a print maker's love of process. Initially, the pieces (a useful generic term) reminded me of the silhouettes you can have made at Coney Island or Cedar Point. Like those…
In the summer before third grade, we moved to a small town far from Dayton. The ramshackle house we rented was across the street from the public library. With its pink-marble columns, the library seemed…
Do you like to read? Me, I've always been a voracious reader. Like other autodidacts, I let my interests take me where it will--I read what I damn well please. Lately, I've been reading a…
Yesterday was a lucky day--I discovered an artist new to me: Carl Gaertner (1898-1952). Gaertner's reputation is almost entirely local to Cleveland, as Robert Smith's is confined to Dayton. Gaertner was born in Cleveland and lived in…
I love everything about art making. This has always been the case for me, but when I was young I was more impatient. I also had an elevated view about the role of artistes. As…
I missed the Toledo Art Museum's Manet exhibition. As consultation I am reading Foucault's "Manet and the Object of Painting."
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