3 WAYS TO SKIN A CAT

Hudson Hatfield

Lane Meyer Projects is pleased to present 3 WAYS TO SKIN A CAT, a solo exhibition featuring artworks by Hudson Hatfield.

Co-curated by Marsha Mack and Brooke Tomiello

September 3, 2021 - October 17, 2021

Opening Reception: Friday, September 3, 2021, 7pm - Late

For Immediate Release:

Opening the gallery door for the first time in over a year, Lane Meyer Projects is proud to present 3 WAYS TO SKIN A CAT, a solo exhibition by Colorado-based artist Hudson Hatfield. A Colorado native recently returned from 10 years spent on the East Coast, the exhibition features three new video works along with light and shadow installations that incorporate elements of pop culture, art history, advertising, and sexuality.

In disregard to lore of the dusty, gunslinging West, Hatfield’s aim to visually redefine the Rockies takes a confident step forward as the pulsing glow of colored lights and seamlessly constructed sets dazzle and provoke an updated romance of place. With contemporary musical references and found audio dialog clips from movies such as Phantom Thread (2017) and War of the Worlds (2005), Hatfield creates a real time nostalgia that anchors works in the aura of popular media. Combined with a natural fluency in internet meme culture and layered meaning, 3 WAYS TO SKIN A CAT collages irreverence and sincerity into its handbuilt analog sets.
In glorious saturated hues, Hudson Hatfield’s 3 WAYS TO SKIN A CAT is akin to a delicious jewelry box where teenage nostalgia meets joyful diversion. As a radiant phallus grows beneath the artificial grass outside the gallery; inside horse lips touch. Within the walls of Hatfield’s playroom snow bears down on the Rockies while simultaneously a dancing sun ignites licking flames. Conceived of as three solutions to the same unnamed problem, Hatfield’s accuity for both construction and play gives rise to works that delight as they probe for viewers’ heartstrings.

Written by Marsha Mack

About Hudson Hatfield

Hudson Hatfield works hard for the money. 

If you put me in a pot of cold water and heat it up slowly I’m not going to realize I’m boiling before it’s too late. Making art and sharing it with others helps me jump out of the pot before I'm fully cooked. I’ve never met a Brooke I didn’t like and It’s nice to have a Virgo in my life again. 2 lefts don’t make a right but 3 do. These particular videos serve as my 3rd left.  If my work is a stage production, then maybe it is a combination of the tortured southern gothic stylings of Tennessee William’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the playful irreverence of Doja Cat’s “Moo!” music video, with the effortless joy and subsequent knee pain of Gene Kelly’s Singing in the Rain choreography, and a healthy dose of muscle from the Summer Olympics.  I haven’t made an onlyfans yet but it’s not exactly off the table.  

Hudson lives and works in Colorado.

Photos by John Lake