Shara Hughes - Wired: Online Auction London Thursday, May 18, 2023 | Phillips
  • “I think that nature reflects emotions in so many ways. Beauty, pain, peace, sadness can all be seen in one day with the passing of time or with a weather pattern. Nature is constantly changing; you will never see the same flower twice in the exact same way. The light changes; its growing, or dying, and moving. This is very reflective of humans and psychology. The way we see something even changes when we go back to it in another headspace. I could see a tree as beautiful on my best day but the same tree as haunting on my worst day.”
    —Shara Hughes

    • Provenance

      Ornis A. Gallery, Amsterdam
      Acquired from the above by the present owner

    • Exhibited

      Amsterdam, Ornis A Gallery, Big Intimates, 3 September-8 October 2016

    • Literature

      Nick Hendrix, 'Ornis A Gallery; Shara Hughes - Big Intimates', Lost Painters, 29 September 2016, online

    • 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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Misguided Cloud

signed, titled, inscribed and dated 'SHARA HUGHES 2016 "Misguided Cloud" NYC' on the reverse
oil, Flashe and caulk on canvas
35.7 x 28.1 cm (14 x 11 1/8 in.)
Executed in 2016.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
£30,000 - 50,000 

Sold for £30,480

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Wired: Online Auction

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