River Huston

RIVER HUSTON
650-787-3073
www.riverhustonart.com
river@riverhuston.com

Painting is what saves me from sleepless nights, the IRS, hair in inappropriate places, east coast winters, untimely deaths, and enormous amounts of chocolate cake.

Awards
2009 Leeway Art and Transformation Award
1999 Dorthea Lange/Paul Taylor Award
1996 Poet Laureate, Bucks County

Selected Exhibitions
2012, Art In The Garden, St Thomas, USVI
2012 You Will Never Amount To Anything Exhibit, USVI
2011, USVI Council on The Arts Exhibit, St Thomas, VI
2011, Less Than Zero Exhibit, St Thomas, VI
2010, The Ice Gallery, St Thomas USVI
2009, Mill, New Hope, PA
2009, River Run Gallery, Lambertville, NJ
2003, No #9 Gallery, Lambertville, NJ
2000, PNC Bank, New Hope PA
1999, Positive Expressions, St Petersburg, Florida
1998, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1997, The Gallery Café, New Hope PA

Positions
2010-2012, Director of The Alternative Arts Alliance, St Thomas, VI
2011-2012 Resident artist sevenminusseven, St Thomas, VI


Portfolio:

River Huston

These peices were created as a resident artist at sevenminusseven art collective in the Virgin Islands and my time spent in Mexico and California

Into the woods “Into the woods”

combined media 18 x 24

sometimes “sometimes”

24 x 30 combined mediums

cold and colder “cold and colder”

10 x 12 combined media

a better day “a better day”

12 x 18 combined mediums

 "The Way Is The Way Is The Way" “ "The Way Is The Way Is The Way"”

2.5 ft x 3.5 ft. com bined mediums ongallery wrapped canvas

 " Nubile Life" “ " Nubile Life"”

4 ft x 4 ft on canvas

"Dreamed Dreams." “"Dreamed Dreams."”

24 in x 30 in. Combined mediums "Dreamed Dreams."

"Becoming Less" “"Becoming Less" ”

30 in x 40 in. combined mediums on canvas

"And Then She Said For All Eternity" “"And Then She Said For All Eternity"”

5 ft x 5 ft. Combined mediums on canvas.

. "Expansive Love" “. "Expansive Love"”

24 in x 24 in. Combined medium on canvas