Thomas Huber
Thomas Huber’s work possesses a strong sense of color, arrangement, texture, and form. His collages and paintings are composed of an array of disparate images and materials. He begins with a thickly sculpted gesso ground that becomes the background for a collage of found lists, scraps of paper with diagrams, doodles and other personal notations, images from magazines, drawings, and drips of paint. Huber creates layers that flow in and out of each other, revealing recognizable and semi-recognizable images and words. His compositions fluctuate between open spaces and dense imagery, with the open spaces giving the viewer a chance to breathe before processing the next cluster of information. In every case, the sense of movement, energy, and flow suggests that something is about to happen. Huber’s work is also playful, juxtaposing image and text in surprising, sometimes funny ways that subtly engages viewers. The major themes in his work are creation, regeneration, and an awareness of the small moments in our lives, the daily beauty that often goes unnoticed in our busy world.
Huber’s work has been exhibited throughout the Hudson Valley, in New York City and New England, as well as in Montreal, Canada. Recent exhibitions include 2015 Artists …
Thomas Huber’s work possesses a strong sense of color, arrangement, texture, and form. His collages and paintings are composed of an array of disparate images and materials. He begins with a thickly sculpted gesso ground that becomes the background for a collage of found lists, scraps of paper with diagrams, doodles and other personal notations, images from magazines, drawings, and drips of paint. Huber creates layers that flow in and out of each other, revealing recognizable and semi-recognizable images and words. His compositions fluctuate between open spaces and dense imagery, with the open spaces giving the viewer a chance to breathe before processing the next cluster of information. In every case, the sense of movement, energy, and flow suggests that something is about to happen. Huber’s work is also playful, juxtaposing image and text in surprising, sometimes funny ways that subtly engages viewers. The major themes in his work are creation, regeneration, and an awareness of the small moments in our lives, the daily beauty that often goes unnoticed in our busy world.
Huber’s work has been exhibited throughout the Hudson Valley, in New York City and New England, as well as in Montreal, Canada. Recent exhibitions include 2015 Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region, Juried by Rachel Uffner, at the University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany NY. In 2014 his work was the subject of a solo exhibition at Theo Ganz Studio in Beacon, NY. In recent years his work has been included in group exhibitions at Matteawan Gallery (The UV Portfolio); Denise Bibro Fine Art and Skylight Gallery, NYC; BAU, Beacon, NY; the Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY; the Woodstock Artist’s Association and Museum in Woodstock, NY, in which Huber was awarded Best in Show in 2011; Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY; and Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY. In 2014 Huber curated the exhibition Salon des Refuses at the Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY. In 2013 he began working with artists Matt Frieburghaus and Laura Kaufman in Decomposer, a collaborative performance group that explores the interaction of sight and sound in space.
Courtesy of Matteawan Gallery
