Cody Hudson “Tambourine solo” Part one.

Our Friend Cody Hudson will have a new art show December 12.More infos below.

“Tambourine Solo: Take One employs a sculptural assembly of found objects and collected tambourines, entitled Too Late to Keep the Change, Too Late to Pay, and two video screens to create an environment of sight and sound that investigates the themes of hopefulness, euphoria and doom, community and solitude that Hudson has articulated over the last few years.  The video, broadcast simultaneously on two facing flat screen monitors, has the look and feel of an updated historical document.  The graphic quality of the images looks as if they have been transferred by facsimile or Xerox, while the added shapes of primary colors, laid over the black and white images, are reminiscent of Hudson’s contemporary paintings and lithographs.  The video depicts geodesic domes and groups of people, which give the piece a decidedly historical feel, referencing Buckminster Fuller, hippie culture, and revolution.  Images appear and reappear to give the video a trance-like quality, amplified by the soundtrack, a percussive piece performed by Zachary Mastoon, also known as Caural.  The soundtrack refers back to the central element, the tambourine sculpture, which, with its connecting wooden braces, can be viewed as a pentagram or a star, revealing Hudson’s insistence on a poetic ambiguity that give his work it’s charge.”