Shara Hughes - New Now New York Tuesday, September 24, 2019 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Museum 52, London
    Private Collection, Italy
    Artnet Auctions, November 30, 2017, lot 123300
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Turin, Metroquadro, Shara Hughes: I Knocked. Then Without Waiting To Be Asked I Went In., May 22 - June 16, 2009, p. 39 (illustrated, p. 11)

  • Artist Biography

    Shara Hughes

    Shara Hughes (b. 1981) earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and later attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. 

    The artist is best known for her colorful landscapes which bridge a gap between the real and the imagined, and the beautiful and the chaotic. Working intuitively, the artist does not typically pre-plan her canvases. Rather her process involves giving form and shape to her previously applied brushstrokes and reacting to her last applications of paint and color through more painting. 

    Hughes has participated in numerous group exhibitions, at venues such as FLAG Art Foundation, NY (2023); ICA Miami (2022); De la Cruz Collection (2022); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (2021); Dallas Art Museum, Dallas (2019); MASS MoCA, North Adams (2018); and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (2015). The artist was also included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Hughes’ work belongs to many prominent museum collections including the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; the Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; the Jorge M. Perez Collection, Miami, FL; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA; the M Woods Museum, Beijing, China; the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; the Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX; the Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; the Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing, China; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY; among others. Hughes lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

     
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Ramp

signed and dated "SHARA HUGHES 2008" lower right; further signed, titled and dated "SHARA HUGHES 2008 "RAMP"" on the reverse
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/4 in. (76.2 x 56.5 cm.)
Executed in 2008.

Estimate
$7,000 - 10,000 

Sold for $27,500

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New York Auction 24 September 2019