“Her compositions, which are based on visits made to the actual sites, represent a fascinating updating of late 19th and early 20th century American traditions for using watercolors as records of travel. In this, Huddy follows the tradition of John Singer Sargent, Maurice Prendergast and Robert Frederick Blum. Huddy’s method of using photography to mediate her memories and experience of a place is reflective of current conceptual developments in contemporary realism. By focusing on details and parts of a larger whole, the images here can also be considered in the context of postmodern interests in fragmentation and cultural encoding of representational scenes. In her poetic transcription of appearances, Huddy invites us to contemplate light as a compelling metaphor for life’s meaning and beauty.”Ronny Cohen, Ph.D
New York City, 1996
(from the show catalogue, “Recent Works,” Walter Wickiser Gallery, August 30- September 18, 1996)
