ARTIST TALK, with Toby Huss, Toby Huss Artist Bio Toby Huss is a multidisciplinary artist living in Los Angeles. He was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, then moved to New York City to pursue a career in the performing and visual arts. His paintings and photography have been featured in groups shows at galleries in NYC and LA since the mid-90's, including a solo show of paintings at Glu gallery in LA, in 2012. His paintings and photography are held in numerous private collections. His 35-year acting career has included work on Seinfeld, Beavis and Butthead, Reno 911, Curb Your Enthusiasm, VEEP, Glow, Halt and Catch Fire, and most recently Halloween, Blonde and Weird, The Al Yankovic story. His poetry was featured on MTV's Spoken Word Unplugged and he's currently working on "American Sugargristle," a book of photography and prose to be published in 2023. This is his first solo painting show in Los Angeles in ten years. On his new paintings, in Flutterluster: "This series of paintings began with a line. A line I've drawn in pencil on scraps of paper, painted on canvases, and sprayed on the sides of buildings, for fifty years. It's been a constant in my life, this line. It’s been telling me a story, my story, all this time but it wasn't until two years ago that I listened. That I heard the line. That I legitimized it and used it as the basis, the point of departure, visually, to tell the story it’s been demanding. These paintings are the result of me, finally listening to what this fluttering line had been telling me all along.” -Toby Huss