• Thomas Huston
  • You have to be gentle and firm all at the same time (2020)
  • thomas.mcbride.huston@gmail.com
  • writing
  • instagram
  • Supplication (2020)
  • info
  • adjacency (2019)
  • Jamais vu (2018)
  • ...an Object That Screams (2017)
  • Drawings (2016-ongoing)
  • (2015-2016)
  • Standard Moving Blankets (2016-ongoing)
  • TEAM SPORTS (2016)
  • work(ing) material lists (2015)
thomas.mcbride.huston@gmail.com
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You have to be gentle and firm all at the same time (2020)
Supplication (2020)
adjacency (2019)
Jamais vu (2018)
...an Object That Screams (2017)
Drawings (2016-ongoing)
Standard Moving Blankets (2016-ongoing)
(2015-2016)
TEAM SPORTS (2016)
work(ing) material lists (2015)
Thomas Huston
writing
info
constellation (1 of 6), 2015
thermo reactive paper, approx. 8.5 x 10"
[detail]
On Tuesday, X crosses a deserted road and loses nine copper coins, 2015
Graphite on paper in artist's frame, 16 x 20" 
Plastic bag taken from the air in front of my first Chicago apartment building (2536 North Kimball Avenue), 2015
Plastic bag, dimensions variable
Aphrodite, 2015
Peg board, contact paper, marble, 2 x 4 x 4'
packaging (Found), 2015
Polyethylene foam, 16 x 14.5 x 3"
Standard Moving Blankets

One evening not too long ago, while I was out going to openings–or maybe to bars–a man approached me on the street and handed me a drawing. He had been drawing me from a distance while I stood outside talking with friends. The drawing was nice, but unremarkable. I held on to it for the time being, and probably would have forgotten it or thrown it out.


A hour or two later, and maybe a few drinks deeper, I was outside again. As I stood loitering on the sidewalk, again a man walked up to me and handed me a drawing he had just made of me.

untitled (anechoic), 2015
drumhead (two-ply), approx. 8.5 x 14" each
[spectre]
untitled drawing (Harold M Agnew), 2016
pen on paper, 8.5 x 11"

Fort / Da, 2015
MDF, 1 gallon gallery white paint, digital print, and newspaper, dimensions variable
untitled (Drawing), 2015
Digital image, dimensions variable
On Thursday, Y finds in the road four coins, somewhat rusted by Wednesday's rain, 2015
Graphite on paper in artist's frame, 16 x 20"
after Fantin-Latour, 2015
Mirror and flowers, 1 x 2 x1'
constellation (1 of 6), 2015
thermo reactive paper, approx. 8.5 x 10"
[disc, monad, surface, wafer]
Recently I attended a high school drama performance of The Sound of Music.  The play ended and the curtain fell.  For many of the actors this was the final performance of their high school career.  As the audience began to file out the curtain rose again, and all of the scenery and set pieces collapsed into the space of the stage, time and place folded into one, and they were met with their material impermanence.  What had been the solid walls of the Von Trapp family home gave way to the cracking and splintering of 1/4 inch plywood, and the swing that had once brought together two young lovers was toppled so that its metal frame could be uncoupled.  As the world of the play fell to its material weaknesses, its inhabitants mourned the death of this world, crying in joy and in sadness.  
On Friday, Z discovers three coins in the road, 2015
Graphite on paper in artist's frame, 16 x 20"
untitled drawing (Harold M Agnew), 2016
pen on paper, 8.5 x 11"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiQqQY41cow
packaging (Artifact), 2015
Polyethylene foam, 14.5 x 16 x 3"
packaging (Found), 2015
Polyethylene foam, 16 x 14.5 x 3"
untitled (Drawing), 2015
Digital image, dimensions variable
[removal, surface, tension, empty echo]
constellation (1 of 6), 2015
thermo reactive paper, approx. 8.5 x 10"
On Friday morning, X finds two coins in the corridor of his house, 2015
Graphite on paper in artist's frame, 16 x 20"
ghost, 2016
bed sheet, dimensions variable
untitled drawing (No more!), 2016
pen on paper, 8.5 x 11"










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constellation (1 of 6), 2015
thermo reactive paper, approx. 8.5 x 10"
[detail]
On Tuesday, X crosses a deserted road and loses nine copper coins, 2015
Graphite on paper in artist's frame, 16 x 20" 
Plastic bag taken from the air in front of my first Chicago apartment building (2536 North Kimball Avenue), 2015
Plastic bag, dimensions variable
Aphrodite, 2015
Peg board, contact paper, marble, 2 x 4 x 4'
packaging (Found), 2015
Polyethylene foam, 16 x 14.5 x 3"
Standard Moving Blankets

One evening not too long ago, while I was out going to openings–or maybe to bars–a man approached me on the street and handed me a drawing. He had been drawing me from a distance while I stood outside talking with friends. The drawing was nice, but unremarkable. I held on to it for the time being, and probably would have forgotten it or thrown it out.


A hour or two later, and maybe a few drinks deeper, I was outside again. As I stood loitering on the sidewalk, again a man walked up to me and handed me a drawing he had just made of me.

untitled (anechoic), 2015
drumhead (two-ply), approx. 8.5 x 14" each
[spectre]
untitled drawing (Harold M Agnew), 2016
pen on paper, 8.5 x 11"

Fort / Da, 2015
MDF, 1 gallon gallery white paint, digital print, and newspaper, dimensions variable
untitled (Drawing), 2015
Digital image, dimensions variable
On Thursday, Y finds in the road four coins, somewhat rusted by Wednesday's rain, 2015
Graphite on paper in artist's frame, 16 x 20"
after Fantin-Latour, 2015
Mirror and flowers, 1 x 2 x1'
constellation (1 of 6), 2015
thermo reactive paper, approx. 8.5 x 10"
[disc, monad, surface, wafer]
Recently I attended a high school drama performance of The Sound of Music.  The play ended and the curtain fell.  For many of the actors this was the final performance of their high school career.  As the audience began to file out the curtain rose again, and all of the scenery and set pieces collapsed into the space of the stage, time and place folded into one, and they were met with their material impermanence.  What had been the solid walls of the Von Trapp family home gave way to the cracking and splintering of 1/4 inch plywood, and the swing that had once brought together two young lovers was toppled so that its metal frame could be uncoupled.  As the world of the play fell to its material weaknesses, its inhabitants mourned the death of this world, crying in joy and in sadness.  
On Friday, Z discovers three coins in the road, 2015
Graphite on paper in artist's frame, 16 x 20"
untitled drawing (Harold M Agnew), 2016
pen on paper, 8.5 x 11"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiQqQY41cow
packaging (Artifact), 2015
Polyethylene foam, 14.5 x 16 x 3"
packaging (Found), 2015
Polyethylene foam, 16 x 14.5 x 3"
untitled (Drawing), 2015
Digital image, dimensions variable
[removal, surface, tension, empty echo]
constellation (1 of 6), 2015
thermo reactive paper, approx. 8.5 x 10"
On Friday morning, X finds two coins in the corridor of his house, 2015
Graphite on paper in artist's frame, 16 x 20"
ghost, 2016
bed sheet, dimensions variable
untitled drawing (No more!), 2016
pen on paper, 8.5 x 11"










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