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Shara Hughes: Day By Day By Day
Galerie Eva Presenhuber is pleased to announce Day By Day By Day, the gallery鈥檚 third solo exhibition with the New York-based artist Shara Hughes.
In her new show, Hughes, who is well known for her works on canvas, presents drawings and monoprint drawings on paper accompanied by two paintings. While focused on drawing, Hughes continues developing her concept of psychological or invented landscapes, which rather than depicting real landscapes, unfold her inner self and radiate moods, emotional states, as well as thoughts on painting. She works intuitively using expressive brushstrokes and vibrant colors; nonetheless, her work is informed by a knowledge of art history and traces of fin de si猫cle styles such as Fauvism, Art Nouveau, or German Expressionism appear in her oeuvre.
In contrast to how her paintings are made, Hughes' drawings were not made in the studio but rather at home in a more relaxed, private environment free from any expectations. In this tranquil setting, Hughes creates drawings using ink, watercolor, markers, crayons, oil pastels, colored pencils, and paint pens. The nature of these materials do not allow for many changes once the color is applied, and each drawing is finished in one session. This direct technique, with its harsh lines in combination with the private atmosphere, allows the artist to delve even deeper into her practice, which radically draws from the inward. The show also comments on the pandemic in 2020, which has made planning impossible and necessitates a profound sense of the present; as the exhibition title implies, we must live Day By Day By Day. Hughes compares the works made in one session to the parts of a sentence, while her paintings can be seen to form a story:
"I often think about my drawings as a run-on sentence that never ends. I believe the drawings work as a release of my subconscious rather than fully forming something that has evolved and resolved itself. I think they open up questions rather than answering them and that's the kind of vulnerable edge I'm looking for."
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Galerie Eva Presenhuber is pleased to announce Day By Day By Day, the gallery鈥檚 third solo exhibition with the New York-based artist Shara Hughes.
In her new show, Hughes, who is well known for her works on canvas, presents drawings and monoprint drawings on paper accompanied by two paintings. While focused on drawing, Hughes continues developing her concept of psychological or invented landscapes, which rather than depicting real landscapes, unfold her inner self and radiate moods, emotional states, as well as thoughts on painting. She works intuitively using expressive brushstrokes and vibrant colors; nonetheless, her work is informed by a knowledge of art history and traces of fin de si猫cle styles such as Fauvism, Art Nouveau, or German Expressionism appear in her oeuvre.
In contrast to how her paintings are made, Hughes' drawings were not made in the studio but rather at home in a more relaxed, private environment free from any expectations. In this tranquil setting, Hughes creates drawings using ink, watercolor, markers, crayons, oil pastels, colored pencils, and paint pens. The nature of these materials do not allow for many changes once the color is applied, and each drawing is finished in one session. This direct technique, with its harsh lines in combination with the private atmosphere, allows the artist to delve even deeper into her practice, which radically draws from the inward. The show also comments on the pandemic in 2020, which has made planning impossible and necessitates a profound sense of the present; as the exhibition title implies, we must live Day By Day By Day. Hughes compares the works made in one session to the parts of a sentence, while her paintings can be seen to form a story:
"I often think about my drawings as a run-on sentence that never ends. I believe the drawings work as a release of my subconscious rather than fully forming something that has evolved and resolved itself. I think they open up questions rather than answering them and that's the kind of vulnerable edge I'm looking for."
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