Shara Hughes
For around a decade, landscapes have occupied a central place in Shara Hughes’s oeuvre, evoking Georgia O’Keeffe as well as Fauvist approaches to landscape and the Expressionism of classical modernism. Hughes’s landscapes are unreal places. Invented but not fictional, they are neither depictions of nature nor escapist retreats into whimsical …
Shara Hughes refers to her paintings and drawings as psychological or invented landscapes, a term that derives from her working process and …
The catalogue “Right This Way” was published on the occasion of Shara Hughes’ exhibition (4/5-17/98/2023) at the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg …
Shara Hughes’ works are at once surreal and abstract, inviting and alarming, beautiful and scary. Their bold, clashing colours and shifting perspectives …
“The flowers can be overpowering and they are larger than us. They are taking over you instead of us picking them. It …
Shara Hughes describes her lush, vibrantly chromatic images of hills, rivers, trees and shorelines, often framed by abstract patterning, as “invented landscapes”. …
Shara Hughes is best known for her colorful, invented landscapes that reference multiple art movements, such as Symbolism, Fauvism, and Surrealism, and …
The fast-rising American artist Shara Hughes is widely praised for her vividly coloured invented landscape paintings. We met Hughes in her New …
Shara Hughes’ works are vibrant and turbulent, a riot of color, depicting imagined spaces which appear as semi-fictional landscapes. Trees, lakes and …
Shara Hughes makes paintings that are decidedly contemporary, and yet the artificial landscapes that she conjures evoke comparisons to a multitude of …
Working at the boundary between abstraction and representation, Shara Hughes’ approach blends memory, association and imagination to encourage new ways of exploring …
