ABOUT MY WORK

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I have been an artist all my life: as an actor and musician,  poet, performance artist, video artist, rock musician and painter. I  taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for 32 years.  Search the web for all info on Jeff and Jane Hudson, the band known for be synth rock pioneers. My resume of career can be found below.

 I have always loved painting, and during the late 70's -early 80's I created large scale acrylic and plaster paintings, and later a series of figurative gouaches. As life intervened, I stopped painting to pursue other interests (also lack of studio had an effect). 

After the intervening years, I began again, with gouaches and acrylics, feeling my way into my imagery. My masters were Kandinsky, Hilma af Klint, Klee, Sonia Delaunay, early European modernism.  I knew the area of interest well. 

Lately, since the pandemic, I've been swept up in the wild ride of the evolution of humanity, its resistence to change, and its aspiration to transcendence. The thrust of my work has been more of a mystical journey, but I found myself thrown back onto the earth to find the ground of nature and home. The 'vortex series' and 'room series' are reflective of that impact.

I have always had an interest in esoteric spiritual material and ideas and have practiced the Tarot as a reflective system. I made the decision to create a series of pieces based on the 22 Major Arcana, the persistent archetypes of human experience. These images sit in parallel with the minor arcana, the four suits of 52 cards. I have chosen not to present a 'deck' of images, but a sequence of events culminating in personal  evolution.

Each painting has a word or two attached  about its referential meaning.

I hope this piques your interest in the work, and in the arena from which it comes .

Thank you.

Jane Hudson

Resume: Exhibitions in Video and painting

Eyes on Art Town (Banner project), Williamstown, MA 2022, 24

Future Lab(s) Gallery,  North Adams, MA 2023,24

Bennington Museum, 2022

Tunnel City Coffee @Mass MoCA, 2022-24

iartcolony, Rockort , MA, 2019

Gallery 51, North Adams, 2019

Tunnel City Coffee @Mass MoCA, 2019-20

The Left Bank, North Benninton, VT, 2017

Tunnel City Coffee, Williamstown 2017

Hudson Art, 2016, Williamstown

Gallery 51 North Adams, 2008

North Adams Antiques Gallery, 2007

Greylock Arts, Adams, MA, 2007

Gallery 51, N. Adams, 2007

ECLIPSE MILL GROUP SHOW, N.Adams, MA 2005, '06, '07

LUMEN ECLIPSE, Harvard Square, 2004

DUMBO Short Film and Video Festival, NYC, 2004

Stefan Stux Gallery, NYC, 2004

DIGITAL NEW SCHOOL, Ann Arbor Film Festival,  Mich. , 2003

DIGITALIS2, Evergreen Cultural Center, B.C., Canada, 2003

Memory S-[x]-ick, Hong Kong Biennial, 2002

BALAGAN Video Series, Coolidge Corner Theater, MA, 2001

CYBERARTS Festival, MA, 2001

ARTCADE, Revolving Museum, Boston, 1997

LACE, Los Angeles, CA, 1994

Harvard Film Archive, MA, 1994

MYTH, MAGIC and MYSTERY, ICA, Boston, 1994

Mill Valley Film and Video Festival, CA, 1993

TRANSEX, Los Angeles, CA, 1993

New Video from the SPACE, DeCordova Mus., 1993

WOW Café Film and Video Festival, NYC, 1992

Local Circuits,  REAL ART WAYS, Hartford, CT, 1992

IMPLOSION NOW, Howard Yezersky Gallery, Boston, 1991

NATURE AND SPIRITUALITY, College of St. Rose, Albany, 1990

SELECTIONS4, InternationalPolaroid Collection, 1998

WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL VIDEO FESTIVAL, Boston, 1988

MADE FOR TV FESTIVAL, ICA, Boston, 1985

BOSTON FILM/VIDEO FOUNDATION, 1982

CHANGING CHANNELS, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1978

WGBH ARTISTS’ SHOWCASE, WGBH-TV, 1976-80

Pastels at Nina Nielson Gallery, Boston, 1976

POWERS OF TEN, Atlantic Gallery, Boston, 1977

POWERS OF TEN, Tommy Segal Gallery, Boston, 1978

VIDEO, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1974-pres.

§ Created Video program with Jeff Hudson, 1974

COURSES TAUGHT:

Intro to Video (software:FInal Cut Pro, iDVD, Dreamweaver)

Fantasy Video: (software: Final Cut Pro, Adobe AfterEffects, Dreamweaver, DVD Studio Pro, Lightwave 3D)

Advanced Media Arts Seminar (readings in media and technology theory)

§ GRADUATE FACULTY, 1987-2006

COURSES TAUGHT:

Contemporary Art Practice Seminar, intro to art and cultural theory and philosophy