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Thrillist Seattle
Monday March 1, 2010
Alec Huxley Art
Gritty urban art
People can achieve amazing things without formal training;
Indian mathematician Rāmānujan made tremendous contributions
to number theory despite being self-taught, while the Rescue
Rangers made tremendous contributions to ridding the world
of Fat Cat, without a degree in environmental management, or
even a seasonal law enforcement certification class! Going
Rāmānujan on urban art; Alec Huxley.
Making extensive use of the "grid method" -- the only
technique he really remembers from his single mandatory
high-school art class -- this some-time graphic
designer/self-taught painter snaps gritty pics of Seatown's
infrastructure, and turns them into high-contrast,
over-sized artiness he says owes its vivid detail to the
extreme patience he learned constantly moving as a kid, aka,
the extreme friendlessness he learned constantly moving as a
kid. AH's latest acrylics are primary color-saturated,
including a muted red depiction of the shadowy alleyway
behind "One Yesler Way", the black & green "I-5 Under
Yesler" depicting the freeway streaked w/ headlights & an
inky black sky, and one where a train is leaving the somber
blue sunlight for the menacingly black "King Street
Station", better known as "that one brick building across
from King Street". Other stuff includes sepia-style local
transport icons ranging from the lonely snow-covered train
tracks in "Argo Yard", to the "Georgetown Landing" (a jet
back-dropped by swirling purplish clouds), to the stark grey
"Under Spokane", which refers to the the oppressive view
from under the Spokane Street Bridge, rather than the
oppressive idea of residing in Spokane.
The ultra-time consuming originals are pricey, but prints
are available on his website, where you can also peep his
photography and designs at no cost, so... you do the math.
See all the art and cop the prints at AlexHuxley.com
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