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“It’s always a surprise to me. Which is why I keep doing them. I never know how they are going to turn out.” — Shara Hughes
One of the breakout stars of the 2017 Whitney Biennial was the vibrant Brooklyn-based painter and printmaker Shara Hughes. Hughes is currently featured in her first solo exhibition at Pilar Corrias in London, Unmanageable, on now through March 28, 2020. Recently, Daily Plinth favorite Gary Yeh of ArtDrunk visited Hughes in her Brooklyn studio as she prepared for the exhibition.
In this video, Hughes “talks about her process in forming her paintings – getting lost in different areas and stepping back to find the right balance in the colors and compositions,” says ArtDrunk. “As she puts it, there’s excitement in how she never knows how the paintings will turn out.”
And from Pilar Corrias:
Belying the very masculine history of utopian gardens and landscape painting, Hughes defies these aesthetic traditions by rendering landscapes that have gone mystifyingly awry. Bold, clashing colours and shifting perspectives manifest into dream-like landscapes that push and pull the eye across the canvas, challenging conventions of space. Flowers threaten to escape the bounds of the canvas; branches beckon us into the dark abyss. Though the natural elements are familiar, Hughes disavows a sense of narrative that is barely hinted at through titles. Rather than depicting true to life landscapes, Hughes invites us into a fantastical world offered as a portal for psychological discovery and reflection.
