Visiting artist Will Hutnick will give an artist talk Tuesday 3/26 at 5pm in the Handwerker Gallery in conjunction with his show CHANGING FASTER THAN THE WEATHER on view from March 21st through April 22nd.
In addition to the work on view in the Gallery, Hutnick has spent the past few days in the Whalen Music Building creating a unique mural which will remain on long term loan through the summer of 2025.
With some help from IC students Abby Costa, Lee Kreshtool, Leanna Yatcilla, Hutnick expects to complete the mural just in time for his artist talk on March 26th at 5pm in the Handwerker Gallery.
Will Hutnick’s lively creative practice uses a range of traditional formal and technical approaches that result in a decidedly nontraditional body of work. Radical juxtapositions and repeated patterns abut color bars, gradients, and stenciled forms alluding to digital artifacts we have seen flicker past the many screens ubiquitous in daily life. Hutnick’s works further disorient through ambiguous figure/ground relationships and jarring transitions which remind us of the competition for our attention happening on screens. Hutnick has described his work as a queering of the landscape, leaving us to question whether the glitch is a bug or a feature in his dynamic mixed media paintings.
