Shara Hughes

by Borcherdt, Gesine; Schwabsky, Barry; Graw, Isabelle; Troncy, Eric

• ISBN13: 9783969120323
• ISBN10: 3969120322
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-02-28
• Publisher: DCV

Summary

At first glance, Shara Hughes’s (b. Atlanta, GA., 1981; lives and works in Brooklyn) colorful and extravagant landscapes are chock full of everything we love in famous paintings: the palette of Henri Matisse or David Hockney, the stylistic inventiveness of Edvard Munch or Paul Cézanne, the painterly gestures of Philip Guston or Josh Smith, perhaps even van Gogh’s brushwork. She quotes this masculine tradition in landscape painting deliberately and unabashedly. This monograph is the first to present a comprehensive overview of Shara Hughes’s work. Shara Hughes graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and later attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Madison, ME. She has had solo shows at the Arts Club, London, the Metropolitan Opera, New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta. In 2017, she participated in the Whitney Biennial, New York.

Author Biography

Gesine Borcherdt is a Berlin-based curator and writer on contemporary art. Barry Schwabsky is an American art critic, art historian and poet. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, New York University and others. He is an art critic for The Nation and also writes regularly for such publications as New Left Review and Artforum. isabelle Graw is professor for art theory at Städelschule, Frankfurt, and editor of the magazine Texte zur Kunst. Éric Troncy (born 1965) is a French curator and art critic who works and lives in Dijon, France, he co-directs the Contemporary Art Museum, Le Consortium.