SHARA HUGHES | ROOM TO HEATHERHILL

Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner

“Shara Hughes’s imagination yields rich, weird stuff. In earlier works, sundry abstract and natural forms are pushed through open-ended narratives within vibrant domestic spaces… Hughes deftly combines the richly saturated palettes of the early Impressionists with the darker psychological tones of more recent picture-makers such as Forrest Bess, Philip Guston, and Dana Schutz. The artist divides a number of her canvases into compartments, making the images she foregrounds contrast quite sharply with the illusionistic depths of their backgrounds… Like a byway through fractured layers of consciousness, Hughes’s vivid paintings marry apperception with fictional time and space—a rabbit hole that, truth be told, one is extraordinarily reluctant to escape."

(Anne Prentnieks on “Shara Hughes” at Malborough Gallery, Artforum, February 2016, online)