My process begins as a reaction to the current situation and energy moving around me. I use acrylic paint, graphite, chalk and oil pastel to create shapes and marks on a wooden and canvas panels. These marks are thought of as individual moments that will overlap, interrupt, jab at each other, and not necessarily play nicely together and eventually will cover the entirety of my work surface. This point in the process is chaotic, in value, form, color and in movement. It is now my job to start making decisions concerning the bigger picture. I will edit and sacrifice “brilliant moments” to create broader movements pushing towards a cohesive whole.

Ultimately at the paintings completion, elements which I let go of define the piece as much as those that I choose to embrace.

However within the completed work I do like to show evidence of the chaotic and energetic past that exists just below the resolved surface.

Brad Huck is a visual artist who engages in mixed media painting and collage. He is a graduate of the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver. Originally from Colorado he has had the opportunity to live in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than a decade as well as launch his art career there. While in the Bay Area, Brad worked as an accomplished graphic designer specializing in identity and package design. He relocated to Maui, HI in 2004 where he creates from his south shore studio and lives with his wife. His works have been exhibited in venues such as The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center (Honolulu, HI), The Schaefer International Gallery (Kahului, HI), The Hui No’eau (Makawao, HI), as well as a variety of galleries throughout the Hawaiian Islands and Mainland, USA. He has received many exhibition awards and purchases, including acquisitions by the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture in the Arts. Brad continues to be an active contributor to the creative community in Hawaii.