The Goldmark Cultural Center’s John H. Milde Gallery is proud to present Where Dreams Meet Reality, a joint exhibition featuring paintings by Jeff Hukill and ceramic works by Sigrun Hukill.
The exhibition is on display in the Goldmark Cultural Center’s John H. Milde Gallery from 8 July 2024 to 9 August 2024 with an opening reception on Saturday, 13 July 2024 from 1pm – 3pm. There will be an artist talk on Sunday, 4 August, at 2pm.
Jeff and Sigrun Hukill will be present at the reception and artist talk to respond to questions and comments about the exhibition.
About the Exhibition
Jeff Hukill’s paintings are visual insights of universal spiritual principles, thoughts, ideas and concepts, originating from dreams, impressions, and imaginings, combined with Sigrun Hukill’s ceramics, a medium of the earth coming together “Where Dreams Meet Reality.”
About the Artists
Jeff Hukill and Sigrun Hukill are husband and wife artists living in East Dallas, not far from White Rock Lake. Both artists have been actively involved in the arts for decades. Although the artists have certainly achieved a high level of prominence and recognition in their respective fields, it is unquestionable that the immersion of these two artists into the world of the arts is perhaps motivated more deeply by their aspiration to focus on their spiritual journeys than by any desire to attain the levels of commercial success than many visual artists wish to achieve.
Jeff Hukill’s awe-inspiring paintings, in his own words, are “visual journeys of sorts from snippets of spiritual principles and ideas, thoughts and insights, contemplations of universal spiritual concepts and virtues, dreams, impressions and imaginings, whether sleeping or with eyes wide open in clear daylight.” The artist often captures a moment in a person’s life, or an event happening in nature, that depict a wonderful sudden insight of something great unfolding before our eyes, an instant of self-discovery, or a unification of the physical and the spiritual. The painter’s beautifically rendered works of imagined or recalled narratives are the result of the artist’s conviction that there is a fine transparent veil that separates the outer physical world from the inner spiritual awakenings of the human spirit. He hopes that his paintings will make that veil apparent to the viewers as they contemplate the visions set forth in the artwork on display.
Born into a family of artists and growing up in postwar Munich, Germany, Sigrun Hukill’s life was surrounded by art from the start. Despite her artistic upbringing, filled with visits to museums and encouragement from her artist parents, Sigrun learned to realize that not even her many travels, whether to Europe’s vibrant cities, or across the Atlantic to the American continent, or to the hidden islands of the Pacific, could help her find the slumbering artist within. The artist credits her husband, Jeff Hukill, as the person who finally gave her steady encouragement and inspiration to pursue her career as an artist. Clay art became Sigrun’s medium of choice. Reconnecting to her artistic side was, according to the artist, as if “a divine hand had struck a match and ignited the flame,” and she joyfully states that, today, the fire of being an artist still burns brightly in her heart.
