Visual Art – New York - NYC
Hailing from Columbia, S.C., Alastair Hutchison is an American painter and illustrator who studied painting and drawing at Winthrop University. At this time his art focused primarily on the unreliable human memory, as well as the breakdown of commonly accepted labels. He has had numerous shows throughout his college career that coalesced to showing in an auction at the South Carolina Museum of art. Shortly after graduating and slightly disenchanted with his own vision of the world, he left the U.S. in search of more. He found just that in South Korea, where he spent a year teaching English and Art to students of all ages. Since returning home the focus of his art matured from just observing human memory to where the “self” and “matter” seem to meet. Asking questions like, do symbols create experiences or do experiences create memories? Where does the self end and the universe begin? If we observe ourselves do we change because of that observation? Drawing inspiration from scientific experiments and attempting to relate them to the human experience, one can see the similarities between human behavior and the behavior of everything from particles, to the universe.