Tom Huck, born 1971, is a visual artist best known for his large scale woodcuts.
Tom Huck
Born: 1971
Biography
Tom Huck, born 1971, is a visual artist best known for his large scale woodcuts. Huck attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale where he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in drawing. He received his Master of Fine Arts in printmaking from Washington University in St. Louis in 1995. He has exhibited on a national and international level, and he has lectured widely across the U.S. about his work.
His woodcut prints are included in numerous public and private collections including: the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; St. Louis Art Museum, MO; Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; Milwaukee Art Museum, WI; Daum Museum of Art, Sedalia, MO; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; The Art Institute of Chicago, IL; and numerous others. In 2011, Tom Huck was a recipient of a prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant.
“My works deal with personal observations about the experiences of living in a small town in Southeast Missouri. The often strange and humorous occurrences, places, and people in these towns offer a never ending source of inspiration for my prints. I call this work “rural satire”. My work has been influenced by an array of artists, among them the woodcuts of Albrecht Durer, the etchings of Warrington Colesott, nearly all of the german expressionists, and the late great Frank Zappa. My chosen media is printmaking, specifically the woodcut. The combination of dark humor with the inherently expressive medium of the woodcut heightens the complexity of my images.” – Tom Huck
Tom Huck, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2008
Ready, Set, Go! Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
2007
Political and Poetical-14th Tallin Print Triennial, Kumu Art Museum, Tallin, Estonia
Devils and Beasts, The Art Center, Highland Park IL
The Bloody Bucket, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO (solo)
Two Weeks in August and The Bloody Bucket, Daum Art Museum, Sedalia, MO (solo)
The Bloody Bucket, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO (solo)
