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From the Artist

Many [African American artists]were focused on identity issues, social andpolitical issues. I didn’t want to do that directly. I wanted that to be a subtlecomponent of what I was doing...And it kept me from having to do what I saw alot of artists doing in my community—looking in the rearview mirror to see ahead.
_{—Excerpted from https://lancasteronline.com/features/curator-of-just-a-few-of-us-believes- abstract-art-doesnt-need-to-explain/article_dd9dbf70-becd-11e4-a1a4-27a5b0c47e70.html, accessed 6-14-2021}

While his extensive travels have exposed him to many forms of abstraction that influenced his own processes of creating art, Hutson sees art not as political expression capable of proclaiming one’s identity, but as a nonrepresentational exploration of color, texture, and natural forms. Although some of his early work does indeed address issues of identity through the use of African signs, symbols, and motifs, Hutson has declared that his art is essentially “about color and the juxtaposition of pattern and texture to compose and arrange materials and space until it achieves an emotional resonance.”
_{—Excerpted from https://africanah.org/bill-hutson/, accessed 6-25-2021}