Hoodoo MO Outsider Art Gallery - Jeff Hughart

<BODY BGCOLOR="#fdad42" TEXT="#ffffff" LINK="#ff0000" ALINK="#ff8040" VLINK="#ffff00"> <P><CENTER><B><FONT COLOR="#000099" SIZE="+3" FACE="BernhardMod BT">Jeff Hughart</FONT></B></CENTER></P> <P><CENTER><B><FONT COLOR="#000099" SIZE="+3" FACE="BernhardMod BT"><IMG SRC="jeffhead.jpg" WIDTH="173" HEIGHT="236" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3"></FONT></B></CENTER></P> <P><B><FONT COLOR="#000099" SIZE="+1" FACE="BernhardMod BT">     Jeff was born in the agricultural town of Oxnard, California in 1956. His creative beginnings were a product of his parents, Richard and Lucille. Both came from creative backgrounds; Richard was an art student in the early 1950s, while Lucilles family consisted of many a musician. From these genes spawned a creative nerve in Jeff that got him to begin drawing at an early age. And although he lost interest in drawing around the time he entered high school, once he entered college he began taking photography classes. After receiving a degree in Communications from Humboldt State, he moved back to southern California and taught himself to play the bass guitar so he could join his friends in one of their punk bands. He went on to play in the infamous punk band, The Rotters, for 15 years. Other creative endeavors include publishing two fanzines, one, 60 Miles North, from 1983-85 and the other, Half-Truth Magazine, from 1990-97. </FONT></B></P> <P><B><FONT COLOR="#000099" SIZE="+1" FACE="BernhardMod BT">     Although Jeff went through many drawing pads as a kid and would peruse any how-to drawing books his dad would buy him, his only formal training was either in his photo classes or a couple of art courses he took while in college. Basically, once he finished those classes he quickly lost interest with the idea of drawing or painting. He was more interested in film and photography. He went on to work as a professional photographer and continues to shoot fine art photos when he feels the inspiration. It is only of late that he has been bitten by the drawing/painting bug, first with charcoals, then pastels and more recently with acrylics. Jeff has no formal training in painting, but instead finds various influences such as Max Beckmann, Joe Coleman, Lucien Freud, Jean Dubuffet, Wolf Kahn, Gary Panter, Henry Darger, Basquait, Richard Diebenkorn, Munch, Van Gogh, Picasso, etc. for inspiration while at the same time he seeks to create his own style of expression. Like his photos, with his drawings and paintings his goal is basic. He wants to please himself with the final outcome, but he would also like to evoke some sort of feeling from the viewer, either good or bad.<BR><br><br> <center><a href=index.html> Back to Artists List </a></CENTER></FONT></B> </BODY>