John Hulsey’s “Primavera,” watercolor, 15 x 20 inches
The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art is delighted to host a temporary solo exhibition by John Hulsey, Transcendence – Truth in Nature. This exhibition features paintings of the natural world surrounding his studio outside Lawrence, Kansas. By using painting knives to create these works, the viewer can experience these landscapes as abstracted and layered as one experiences nature itself.
Hulsey is a lifelong professional artist, teacher and author. Hulsey attended the Kansas City Art Institute from 1971 to 1972 and the University of Kansas Fine Arts Department from 1973 to 1976. He lived and maintained a studio for 10 years in Garrison, New York, before returning to Kansas.
His work has been exhibited in solo and juried group exhibitions nationally, and in galleries in New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Wyoming and California. He is the recipient of numerous awards, and his paintings are included in many corporate and private collections: The Environmental Law Institute, Washington, D.C.; The Hudson River Reference Collection, Garrison, New York; The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; The United States Embassies in Australia and Jordan; and The Albrecht- Kemper Museum of Art, to name a few.
He has traveled extensively to paint in the U.S. and Europe, where he teaches painting workshops in Italy and France. He has been awarded painting residencies by the National Park Service at Yosemite, Glacier and Rocky Mountain National Parks. During his career, he has also produced commissioned paintings for most of the major publishing houses, including Random House, Little, Brown and Co., Reader’s Digest and Time Magazine, which featured his watercolor portrait of Margaret Thatcher on the cover.
In addition to producing new work for exhibition and teaching workshops, Hulsey continues to write educational articles about painting for national art magazines, including Watercolor Magazine and International Artist Magazine. He has been selected as a “Master Painter of the United States” by International Artist Magazine.
His new body of work, Transcendence – Truth in Nature, will be presented in a solo exhibition at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, Missouri, on view until April 16, 2023.
