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Gordon Huether

Gordon Huether is a German American artist, and CEO of Gordon Huether + Partners, Inc., commonly known as Gordon Huether Studio or The Hay Barn.

Biography

Gordon Huether was born in Rochester, NY in 1959, to German immigrant parents. Having dual citizenship in Germany and the U.S., Huether has spent much time traveling between both countries. Huether learned art composition and appreciation at an early age from his father. In the course of his initial artistic explorations, Huether was resolved to create a lasting impact on the world around him through the creation of large-scale works of art. He took a deliberate step towards this goal in 1987 when Huether founded his studio in Napa, California.

In 1989 Huether was awarded his first public art commission for the University of Alaska Geophysical Institute. Given the opportunity to collaborate with a building design and construction team, allowed Gordon to realize what he envisioned, and proved to be a significant step for him. His careful consideration of the artwork or installation in context to the space and its users has led to many major public art awards around the globe.

Projects have included art installations for private corporations, airports, transportation centers, parking garages, hotels, universities, hospitals, recreation centers, civic buildings, libraries, and museums.

During his frequent visits to Germany in the early 1990s, Huether’s aesthetic vision took an important turn, which was influenced by Professor Johannes Schreiter. While the medium of glass had initially inspired Huether’s material impulses, Schreiter’s work inspired him to unlock and express vital ideas and humanistic passion in his own work. Huether began to concentrate on the intellectual and emotional message one can deliver through an artistic creation. His work became about communicating a story, not just creating objects of beauty.

In recent years, Gordon has begun exploring different media to challenge both the concept and direction he has taken in the creation of his smaller-scale fine artworks. This personal and professional exploration has given insight to the myriad of ways he can express the beauty he sees. Using the seductive properties of richly saturated color, a wide array of natural and artificial light sources, luscious and diverse texture, found materials and quirky, sometimes unsettling imagery, his work offers viewers a complex intellectual experience.

His experience in the realm of large-scale artwork generated the confidence to fashion fine art pieces with very personal content. Huether started experimenting with salvaged materials, found objects and in contrast to these elements, items of polished and impeccable nature. While his core skills are in glass design, Huether also has extensive experience in working with many other media including steel, repurposing salvaged materials, resins and composite materials.

Until this day, much of his work is inspired by the effects nature has on man-made materials such as the rusty patterns present in deteriorating metal. These materials, translated into works of art, serve as a reminder of the temporal character of man’s achievements and the awe-inspiring forces of nature.

Huether’s work has been exhibited at museums and galleries, and collected across the United States, in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and New York. He has received more than 60 public art commissions and more than 150 private commissions.

Gordon Huether's Public Art Process and Philosophy

Drawing from his extensive experience in collaborating with public art administrators, government agencies, artist colleagues, communities and more, the artist is able to manage a diverse set of variables relating to project scope, materials and location.

Gordon Huether believes that the placement of public art can considerably enhance a person’s individual experience of a space, shape its environment in a positive way, and hence bestow a new level of perception upon an otherwise every day experience. Through his work Huether strives to redefine the relationship between individuals and the space that surrounds them diurnally by steering our routine-conditioned minds off that path to explore aspects of our reality that may otherwise be considered insignificant. Huether’s intention is to create a visual dialogue between the art and the architecture of the site, bring forth shared value through publicly placed artwork and bring storytelling and beauty into publicly shared spaces.

About Gordon Huether Studio

Gordon Huether Studio is the fabrication studio, where artist Gordon Huether and his team create large-scale, site-specific art installations that are integrated into architecture and landscape for projects throughout the world. The Studio is located on 1821 Monticello Road in Napa, CA 94558, USA. A majority of the work Huether designs is fabricated here.

Huether’s 15,000-square-foot studio, originally built by the Bishop Family in the 1980′s for use as a hay barn and later as a feed store, has undergone a 1.5 million dollar renovation in 2008. The studio houses Gordon Huether’s design studio, project gallery, fabrication facilities, administrative offices and the Hay Barn Gallery, featuring a revolving exhibition of Gordon Huether’s fine art, as well as exhibiting the works of selected guest artists.

www.gordonhuether.com

References

1.^ Andrea Schwartz Gallery. "Gordon Huether CV - Andrea Schwartz Gallery" (http://www.asgallery.com/Gordon%20Huether /gordonhuethercv.php). http://www.asgallery.com/Gordon%20Huether/gordonhuethercv.php. Andrea Schwartz Gallery. Retrieved 03/14/14. 2. ^ Röhlen, Peter (2013). Farb-Licht-Spiel: Dichroitisches Glas in Bildender Kunst und Architektur (Dichroic Glass in Fine Arts and Architecture). PRINZ OPTICS GmbH. pp. 42–47. 3. ^ Julian, Christine (May 2012). "The Business of Art". North Bay Biz Magazine.

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