Linda Hudgins: A Retrospective

 A graduate of Converse College and Rhode Island School of Design, Hudgins spent many years teaching art at Spartanburg Day School, in Botswana during her time at U.S. Peace Corps, and in China. Her attentiveness and honest responsiveness in those years and later has been truly inspirational, seen specifically through the rich colors and intriguing lines and shapes found in her works. The recent pandemic and its consequent uncertainties greatly affected her life, including her art-making. Locked down in her home studio in Tryon, NC, she looked to art as her meditation, therapy, distraction and more. An array of works on pedestals lends the viewer insight into Hudgins’ methods still ongoing, and a glimpse of a path to a productive future.