SLU Museum of Art: Friday, 18 February 2011
Tom Huck: Brutal Truths
will open with a reception on Friday, February 18 beginning at 5:30 p.m.
February 18-April 17
Brutal Truths will include more than 45 of Huck's large-scale, intricately complex woodcuts including work from several of his major series including Two Weeks in August: 14 Rural Absurdities; The Bloody Bucket; BLAB!, and The Transformation of Brandy Baghead.
In many of his prints, Huck finds his inspiration in incredibly bizarre, but true occurrences that happened in his boyhood home of Potosi, MO, approximately 80 miles southwest of St. Louis. While the stories are true, Huck uses his printmaking prowess to exaggerate the details and embellish the facts in his woodcuts that allow him to embrace his fervor for storytelling. The Two Weeks in August: 14 Rural Absurdities series took Huck three years to complete. The intricacy of Huck's carving is remarkable, and the range of textures, surfaces and tones he achieves in these blocks are feats of control and mastery.
will open with a reception on Friday, February 18 beginning at 5:30 p.m.
February 18-April 17
Brutal Truths will include more than 45 of Huck's large-scale, intricately complex woodcuts including work from several of his major series including Two Weeks in August: 14 Rural Absurdities; The Bloody Bucket; BLAB!, and The Transformation of Brandy Baghead.
In many of his prints, Huck finds his inspiration in incredibly bizarre, but true occurrences that happened in his boyhood home of Potosi, MO, approximately 80 miles southwest of St. Louis. While the stories are true, Huck uses his printmaking prowess to exaggerate the details and embellish the facts in his woodcuts that allow him to embrace his fervor for storytelling. The Two Weeks in August: 14 Rural Absurdities series took Huck three years to complete. The intricacy of Huck's carving is remarkable, and the range of textures, surfaces and tones he achieves in these blocks are feats of control and mastery.
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