In this getting-to-know-you talk with Austin, TX-based artist Kerry Hugins, we discuss:
• Kerry’s UV light paintings of flowers • Colors and other aspects of reality that are imperceptible to human senses • Living in Mexico as a child and returning for residencies
• The economics of artist residencies
• Kerry’s show at LockART House in Lockhart, Texas and her grid paintings
• Art as a window into the world through another person’s experience/perspective • Flowers and beauty as legitimate subjects and qualities for artists
• Exploring beyond the material and what science can measure • Lucid dreams and “extrasensory” experiences • Light Pollution, the night sky, and Milky Way origin stories
• An ode to Far West Texas and how impactful it has been for both Kerry & Lisa
• Finding a place for quiet art in an intense world • The impact of current events in Kerry’s upbringing and how she has integrated it
• Art as a mediation and musing on ways to meditate
• How conversations have begun to change in recent years • The “Spiritual” in art/life and what that means
• Balancing the internal and the external and merging those experiences and how that comes through stylistically
• Having more than one style and how that links to the art economy • Showing/not showing work • Diverse incomes sources for artists and taking ownership • The untapped potential of YouTube for artists