PRESS
11/07/09 Danielle Ezzo for Art+ Culture
"There is nothing more tantalizing than line quality. Thats what drew me to Erin Hudak's mixed media pieces. Clipps dressed with paint and marker, exclaim quietly with plights of war, sex, and death. Vibrant colors are so sparsely used, but still completely present on an otherwise white washed background." See link for full interview:
http://www.artandculture.com/feature/1802
1/28/2009 R.C. Baker for The Village Voice
"Although Dear America, I Still Love You wins the Best Title award for any artwork I've seen so far this year, there are a number of other pieces here by Erin Rachel Hudak that more fully realize the knotty implications of those words. These collages include faint images from The New York Times, their ghostly affect reminiscent of Rauschenberg's solvent transfers of mass imagery for his Dante's Inferno drawings. A similar sense of dread runs through Hudak's energetic jumbles of roadkill, stenciled bombs, blurred headlines, and splattered paint. But amid the guns and war machines, couples kiss (though one partner is generally painted over) and deer gaze out from bushes, wary of outlined predators lurking nearby. In a smaller drawing, the words "run dead run dead run dead" tumble down the page in scrawled pencil, perhaps a binary ode to America's exhilarating promise and flawed reality."
2/16/2006 Kuntzman for The Brooklyn Papers
"For at least 1 day, DUMBO finds 'Love' "Alas, love sometimes only lasts a day. Artist Erin Hudak took a few dozen yards of pink acrylic and transformed a snow-covered hill in DUMBO...."No dont take it down!" Screamed a teenager in a car that had pulled over to the side of Washington Street as Hudak removed the script "love." "It's so romantic. We were hoping it would be there forever!"..."It was wonderful as an atist," Hudak said. "I saw people walking across the Brooklyn Bridge standing on benches to see it. A women left a note for me that said "Thank you for spreading the love...you are an angel!"
www.brooklynpaper.com/assets/pdf/29_07br.pdf
10/16/2003 Kurt Shaw Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Art Critic
"Erin Rachel Hudak, an Ohio native who recently returned to the region after spending five years in Savannah, Ga., used the circle in the most confronting way in this exhibition - by arranging 24 place settings of her grandmother's china on a circular table cloth on the floor in the center of the gallery. Hudak has filled the soup bowls of each place setting with buckeyes that she has painted and flocked with glitter, giving them the appearance of sugar-coated sweets. The bitter buckeyes belie that the notion altogether, however, and there in turn is the rub and the reason why the piece is titled "Welcome Home."