Overview
Yellow Brick Road, 2020
Hughes’ work exists in a realm between invented and natural worlds, in which familiar arboreal silhouettes and grounding horizon lines are made supernatural by bold brushwork and paradisical palettes.
Shara Hughes (b. 1981) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2004 and was an artist in residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Hughes is widely recognized for her ability to bridge unnatural scenes with illustrative logic through vivid hues and emphatic gestures.
Her work has been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum among other collections.
Works
Exhibitions
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Uncanny Interiors
7 Jul - 19 Aug 2022Uncanny Interiors is a group show examining novel and stirring interpretations of interior space, including still lifes and figures in rooms. The exhibition includes works by Anne Buckwalter, Lenz Geerk,...Read more -
The Earth, That Is Sufficient
15 Jul - 1 Sep 2021Nicola Vassell Gallery is pleased to present, The Earth, That is Sufficient. The assembled, multi-generational group enlists various narrative methodologies to describe landscape in traditional terms and as new terrain...Read more
Press
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A Group Show Examining Interpretations of Interior Space on View at Nicola Vassell Gallery
Eli Anapur, Widewalls, July 23, 2022 -
‘THE EARTH, THAT IS SUFFICIENT’ OPENS AT NICOLA VASSELL GALLERY
Shelton Boyd-Griffith, Grazia Magazine, July 20, 2021 -
‘Landscapes Opened a Whole New World for Me’: Artist Shara Hughes on How She Subverts the Tradition of Flower Painting
Katie White, Artnet News, August 17, 2020
