Video Documentation of Shrines Art Projects
Artist Statement
The shrines are a series of multimedia projects that take different forms including dioramas, constructions, and installations. They are contemplative works that reflect on relationships between contemporary culture, the natural world, and cycles of time – day and night, summer and winter, life and death.Aesthetically, this work encompasses wide ranging ideas from both high and low culture: museum displays, cemeteries, hunting trophies, television, medieval artifacts, Asian temples and Americana kitsch.
Read: “Dan Hudson Shrines: The Artist as Trapper, Philospher, Illuminator” by Katherine Ylitalo
The Shrines – installation view
King and Queen (2006-2007), Mixed Media/Multimedia Constructions 84″ x 60″ x 11″ inches
Reaching for Heaven (2010-2012), Mixed Media/Multimedia Constructions 37″ x 49″ x 12″
Greener Grass (2009), Mixed Media/Multimedia Constructions 39″ x 25″ x 16″ (Collection of the Glenbow Museum).
Trophy (2008), Mixed Media Construction, 24″ x 26″ x 18″
Scavenger (2009), Mixed Media/Multimedia Constructions 21″ x 21″ 8″ (Collection of the Esplanade Gallery).