Huether was born in Rochester, NY in 1959, to German immigrant parents. Having dual citizenship in Germany and the U.S., Huether has spent much time traveling between both places. Huether learned art composition and appreciation at an early age from his father. In the course of his initial artistic explorations Huether resolved to create a lasting impact on the world around him through the creation of large-scale works of art. An early step towards this goal occurred in 1987 when Huether founded his studio in Napa, California with a mission to create site-specific art installations. In 1989 Huether was awarded with his first public art commission for the University of Alaska Geophysical Institute. Given the chance to collaborate with a building design and construction team to realize a projected vision proved a significant step for Huether. His careful consideration of the artwork or installation in context to the space and it’s users has led to many major public art awards across the globe. During his frequent visits to Germany in the early 1990s, Huether’s aesthetic vision took an important turn owing to the influence of Professor Johannes Schreiter. While the medium of glass had initially inspired Huether’s material impulses, Schreiter’s work inspired him to unlock and express vital ideas and humanistic passion in his own work. Huether began to concentrate on the intellectual and emotional message one can deliver through an artistic creation. His work became about communicating a story, not just creating objects of beauty. The expansion of Huether’s studio into an old tannery complex triggered a movement in Napa to form an art-based community within the compound. Huether created an environment where artists and craftspeople of various media could collaborate as well as inspire one another. With the studio’s expansion, the staff also grew to include a wide range of creative people that shared Huether’s artistic vision and the ability to implement a broad range of ideas. In 1993 Huether responded to the stringent requirements of contemporary building codes for the Stanford Biomedical Research Center by developing a new glass art technique. Receiving a US patent, the process allowed artistically altered glass to be fully installed into a commercial glazing system. This new technique created many opportunities to successfully integrate art into architecture. In 1997 Huether became permanent artist-in-residence at Artesa winery. The dramatic architecture of the winery created a perfect environment for Huether to exhibit his fine art and sculpture. The relationship with Artesa gave Huether the chance to fully explore more intimate autonomous works in media such as collage, canvas, collographs, metal, and sculpture. This defined the relationship where the intimate and monumental works of art each reflect the ideas and inspirations of the other. Through his many commissions, public art projects, and art exhibitions, Huether has developed an innate sensitivity to and mastery of a variety of media. Inspired by material qualities and how they effect an environment, Huether often chooses, but is not limited to using glass, neon, metal, paint, acrylic, water, light, found objects, and recycled materials. His studio is skilled at overcoming technical obstacles associated with any project, regardless of scale or materials. Gordon Huether is constantly pursuing the realization of his dream to have a lasting and positive influence through the creation of large scale projects all over the world.