黑料不打烊

For the exhibition Hughes has made a series of paintings using numerous materials that coalesce in a harmonious clamor of colour and texture. The paintings depict interiors. Hughes presents spaces that seem, partly through their distorted perspective, nonfunctional, however, they do not appear lifeless. Geometric objects, furniture and everyday items occupy the rooms. These items emphasis the incongruous notion of depth to the paintings and the assemblage of media used to create them. `I like having people ask me or question what something is, or why something is there. I answer it simply. That`s a goldfish鈥�those are stairs鈥�that`s a triangle鈥� In some way, explaining that it`s only a staircase is not an answer for what it`s doing there, why it`s not going anywhere, or why I chose to use the paint or colors in such a way to create the shape`. Hughes` concern is not necessarily with what is painted but with the painting itself. Despite the somewhat illustrative nature of the works, her decisions are dictated by form, material and the nature of representation itself rather than narrative. The shapes, the furniture, the paint application and references to art history continuously match up to a resurfacing question: what is art and how many ways can we describe everything? By using different techniques to create a space Hughes is able to refer to something specific and simultaneously nothing at all. Hughes sees the gap between object, image, paint and idea as the most intriguing space. She is interested in not having to decide on what something is and instead allowing it to exist undefined. Hughes graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is represented by Rivington Arms Gallery in New York where she had her first solo show last year. She will also feature in Unreal: Altered Perspectives In Painting at the newly located Saatchi Gallery.