Joshua Huettig Painting and Sculpture
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1860 Mellwood Art Center
Studio 307
Louisville, KY 40206
United States
| I'm a self-taught artist and have been painting since 2007. I've always been attracted to primitive images and the way nature ages things - I'm influenced by many southern, African American self-taught artists such as Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Purvis Young, William Dawson and Steve Ashby - these artists were simple, often very poor, but created art with materials that were available and in their immediate environment - found objects, house paint, etc.
I find self-taught art to be one the truest expressions of art: there is no middle man, no formal training - it's simply just man and art. There is a crude honesty in that that touches me. So with my art, I try to paint openly, loosely and uncritically. Most of my art is symbolic of our innate freedom to choose the direction of our lives, and that the only way to live is to live openly and expressively with ourselves and each other. I sincerely believe that this world and this life are what we make of it, and it is those feelings and beliefs that I put into my... |
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