Robert Hudson | |
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Born | Robert H. Hudson 1938 (age 85–86) Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. |
Died | June 14, 2024 |
Nationality | American |
Education | San Francisco Art Institute |
Known for | Sculpture |
Movement | Modernist sculpture, Geometric abstraction |
Spouse(s) | Cornelia Schulz (m. 1962–?; divorced); Mavis Jukes (m. 1977–present) |
Children | 4 |
Robert H. Hudson (born 1938)[1] is an American visual artist. He is known for his funk art assemblage metal sculptures,[2] but he has also worked in painting and printmaking.
Hudson lives and works in Cotati, Sonoma County, California.[2][3]
Robert Hudson was born in 1938 in Salt Lake City, Utah and he grew up in Richland, Washington.[3] At a young age he became interested in making art.[3]
Hudson moved to San Francisco, California for college in 1957.[3] He received a B.F.A degree in 1961 and an M.F.A. degree in 1963, both from California School of Fine Arts (now San Francisco Art Institute or SFAI). Hudson was classmates with William T. Wiley.[4] Hudson studied under Nathan Oliveira, Frank Lobdell, Elmer Bischoff, Jeremy Anderson, Gurdon Woods, and Frank Hamilton.[4]
Hudson is known for his funk art assemblages, of the late 1950s and 1960s. He has also produced non-objective paintings, ceramics and large steel and bronze sculptures. His first solo exhibition was in 1961 at the Richmond Art Center, while he was still in graduate school.[5]
In 2010, Hudson created a 16-story tall mural made of polychromatic enameled steel panels for One Hawthorne, a condominium building in San Francisco.[6]
He was married in 1962 to artist Cornelia Schulz[7][4] His son Case Hudson (born 1968) is a master printmaker and has worked at Crown Point Press, and Gemini G.E.L.[4][8]
, whom he met at SFAI. Through his married to Schultz they have two sons, and it eventually ended in divorce.Hudson's second marriage was to author Mavis Jukes in 1977, and they have two daughters together.[4]
Several public museum collections hold work by Hudson, they are: