STEVE HUSTON
	FOREWORD Steve Huston has created a thematic trilogy of paintings for this one-man exhibition, which impacts the senses almost as if becoming a force of nature within itself. These works are poetic, poignant and masterfully powerful. In the paintings of boxers and nudes, which compose two thirds of this exhibition, Huston continues his exploration into the iconic archetypes of masculine and feminine line and form. The nudes are as powerful in their commanding passivity as are the pugilists engaged in battle. It seems a natural progression that Steve Huston would turn his creative prowess to capturing the raw physicality of the manual laborer, the third subject in this trilogy. These men share not only the sculpted musculature of the boxer but an essence of brutality that comes from a life of extreme physical exertion. The workers, who toil in daylight, have offered the artist an opportunity to develop a palette infused with natural light and shadow. The artist, born in 1959, is a native of Anchorage, Alaska. At the age of twenty, Huston moved to California to study at the Art Center College of Design, graduating with a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art. He first established himself as a successful illustrator, commissioned by such high profile clients as Paramount Pictures, MGM and Warner Brothers. His talents led him to a faculty position at the Art Center, as well as to teaching courses in life drawing, anatomy and composition for the artists and animators of Disney and Dreamworks SKG studios. Steve Huston is an "artist's artist" who is admired and whose work is sought after by his peers, as well as by collectors around the world. He possesses a rare combination of technical virtuosity accompanied by a singular vision and aesthetic, and with these unique gifts he creates works of enormous strength and beauty.
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