biography

Gene Hracho has been hand-crafting enigmatic sculptures for more than four decades.  He began making a living as an itinerate set of hands, employed for various projects that took advantage of his ability to manipulate wood and metal.

As his technical skill matured, Gene remained itinerant, moving between larger manufacturing operations, participating in the production of furniture, musical instruments, and troop-carrying helicopters, among many other things.

Gene’s studio practice has been driven by aspirations to expand upon a provincial, working-class upbringing by starting engaging conversations (or arguments) through these objects.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

My creative practice applies dueling aesthetics, one evocative of the unrestrained imagination of a precocious youth and one recognizing the disillusionment that inevitably comes to temper it.

These sculptures, which are presented with an irreverent attitude toward their own pontification, appear as relics of questionable undertakings that represent both our astounding scientific achievements and our equally unfathomable moral failures.