Christopher Hutson was born in
1980 and raised in the Chicago area, where he went on to draw some of
the coolest dinosaurs and spaceships at Whittier elementary school. He
has always made art compulsively, and has been drawing as long as he
can remember.
He graduated in May 2002 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in
printmaking from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, and is
currently enrolled in graduate art studies at Louisiana State
University.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My art seeks to locate a mythopoetic
realm, that threshold where shapeless stirrings welling up from dark
subterranean labyrinths meet the defining light of discriminating
awareness and are given form. All the shining manifestations of sense
and memory are invested with internal spiritual resonance and
significance, and meaning arcs like a spark between the anode and
cathode of inner and outer reality.
Dreaming and its images are a primary
source of my art. Often, one of my primary criteria for deciding at
what point a work has concluded is the point at which I realize the
full significance of the symbol. In fact, I often work with images
from dreams or impulses that I could not explain at the beginning of
my process, but that attract me with their power.
