Nate's Artwork

Nate Hudson, R.I.P., co-founded Optic Nerve Arts with Tracy Faraca in 2003. Nate was an accomplished tattooist and an amazingly gifted artist. This page serves to be a place where people can come and check out some of the wonderfully disturbing art that Nate created.

About Nate's Art:
Will; destiny; life. The art of the late Nate Hudson, at first glance, seems to evoke parables of disease and death, as a 15th century woodcut might. A more studied look finds, paired with some inner angels and demons, a fascination with beauty and with the human form. Echoes of Nate’s most revered antecedents — photographer Joel Peter Witkin and illustrator H.R. Geiger — certainly reverberate in some of the work, but in Nate's final years that reverberation dissipatined more and more into an artistic voice that is undeniably Nate’s own.

His drawings are challenging and can easily elicit disturbing responses from viewers of weaker constitution. Refusing to compromise himself, Nate destroyed this obstacle by opening Optic Nerve Arts Gallery with his life partner, Tracy Farraca, in early 2003. The gallery has since been dedicated to showing not only Nate and Tracy’s art, but that of scores of local, national and international artists whose outré sensibilities fall outside the acceptability sonar of many galleries. It becomes clear that Nate had accepted his destiny as that of the artist, and that carried with it the desire to open his mind, heart and walls to kindred experimenters.

Nate's life came to a sad and untimely end on March 4, 2005. To lose an artist, a partner and a father is truly a tragedy. Nate’s sweet and soft spoken demeanor (and smart mouth) is missed by many.