About

Studio Shmudio

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Forrest Solomon Hudes (he/him)

BIO:

Forrest Hudes is a second generation Jewish-American woodworker, designer, and artist. After receiving a BA in Theater and Dance from Amherst College his creative practice morphed to focus on functional object and spatial design. Forrest has made objects for homes, offices, retail and restaurant interiors, scenic environments, and residential architectural projects in New York, Los Angeles, and Detroit.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

My practice is driven by a passion for discovering contemporary forms for traditional objects that reinforce and encourage social progress.

I believe that the built environments that we inhabit have the most profound emotional impact on us and the way that we conceive of the world we live in. 

(i.e. The boundaries of our perceived reality and capabilities therein are insinuated by the coded information that our constructed environments deliver to us. )

The intention of my work is to create objects and spaces that embody formlessness and feeling in static material.

 I make furniture about feelings. I create emotional infrastructure. I explore the home as a site of ritual and performance. I blend cheap materials, construction aesthetics and methods, and craft techniques as a way of layering and subverting value systems. I uncover magic within sanitized spaces.