Cody Hudson

Born 1971, USA

 

Cody Hudson continues to develop his themes of hope versus doom, euphoria, boredom, community, solitude, and revolution with his new paintings and drawings.  His use of graphic line work and a palette of bright colors have coalesced to create a body of new paintings that reference his narrative of longing and hopefulness while also finding context within contemporary abstract painting.  The artist continues to be interested in the elemental use of shape as signifier, but he has gone further by allowing the forms that take place in his to be direct extensions of the poetic content of the painting itself.  His previous use of text has nearly disappeared and a new visual language has emerged.

 

 



Cody Hudson, He Believes if He Could Say the Right Words Then the Darkness Would Go Away, 22” x 22”, acrylic, ink, and spray paint on panel, 2009.