A catalogue, announcement and exhibition design for the Sonoma County Museum in Santa Rosa, California. The retrospective focused on sculpture, paintings, drawings and ceramics created by Hudson in his studio in Cotati, California. Our work was heavily influenced by the character of Hudson’s workspace and materials.

Driving up Highway 101 from the Bay Area to Hudson’s home and studio, set among vast green pastures and a thick grove of eucalyptus trees in Cotati, a rural village in southern Sonoma County, was like leaving one world and entering another. Although I was already familiar with Hudson’s work, I was unprepared for the almost overwhelming creative energy and happy excess of color and materials that greeted me upon first entering his studio. —Michael Schwager