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Hughes was going against the tide in contemporary art, when the human figure was making a robust return. When she broke outside into her own unique form of landscape painting, Shara says ...
Kaleidoscopic landscapes and riotous bursts of flowers are the signatures of Brooklyn-based artist Shara Hughes—scenes she ... open-ended about the idea of a landscape that appeals to me too.
For her solo debut at Marlborough Chelsea, Shara Hughes presents eight near-dizzying ... the Swell” (2016), which takes elements of the landscape and uses them as a doubled framing device.
The plants in Shara Hughes’s mind-bending paintings export ... and a means to explore color and shape. They rethink the landscape genre, reworking a well-worn creative subject with vigor.
__Dodie Kazanjian: You’ve been working with landscape for the past three or four years. What led you to concentrate on flowers? Shara Hughes: I had made a few flower paintings in the recent past ...
Shara Hughes' Truth in Your Shadows 2 comes from the artist's first ... Intuitively responding to the translucent landscape, she transforms the scene with rich jewel-toned additions, painting directly ...
When Shara Hughes first comes into view ... “But even when my work is more landscape, there is still a moment in the process that I only think about colours and forms. So, for me, everything ...
Shara McCallum is the author of six books, most recently No Ruined Stone, winner of the 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry.
That surprising concept of landscape is evident in the gallery about the sea. Shara Hughes' painting, "Gusto" is paired with the video "Under Discussion" by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla.
Chock full of juicy color and frantic, busy action, Shara Hughes’ paintings are assaults on the eyes. Her 10 works on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia as part of the 2012/2013 ...
Art in review, from Times critics. Shara Hughes’s nervy new paintings are a bit like puppies: noisy, incautious and frequently irresistible. The first sight of “Trips I’ve Never Been On ...