Florence artist Trudonna Husong, believes that “the aged and deteriorating carry a defining, visceral beauty.”
Trudonna believes art has the ability to change outcomes and pursues being a catalyst for such change. She attended the California College of Art in the 1990’s for her BFA Sculpture and went on to earn her MFA Sculpture from the University of Arizona.
Since 2004 she has been working out of garage studio space, “mining her obsessions,” the results being the show “RAW,” which opened in Los Angeles in 2009, RAW X in 2010 at Feast in Florence, and is currently working on RAW XI and RAW XII.
Pieces in her show “Significant Stones,” presented on sculptural bases, emphasizes the subtle handmade textures of natural tones in cotton and hemp applied with beeswax by hand over the stones sensual surfaces.
Trudonna has shown her work in England, California, Idaho, Arizona and Oregon. Her work has appeared in FIBERARTS, Concepts and The Exquisite Garden. She currently is represented at Loyalty Creative and Current Lucid in California and the Freed Gallery in Oregon.