From November 6 to January 9 next year, the Yuz Museum project space will present Brooklyn artist Shara Hughes' first institutional solo exhibition in China, "The Bridge". Hughes's recent landscape outside the transcendent object, with the natural landscape as the cornerstone, builds a bridge between Taoyuan and reality. This groundbreaking creation born during the pandemic highlights Hughes's keen insight into life and death, the universe and humanity, impermanence and eternity.
Hughes often presents himself with a visual language in which perception and intuition coexist, and figurative and abstract coexist. Rich art history reserves allow it to blend the various painting styles that prevailed at the end of the century (fin de siècle). The strong brushwork, vivid colors and perpetual perspective make Hughes's improvisation sincerely reproduce her contemplation of herself and foreign objects. Exuberant vitality runs throughout the painting, and as Roger Fry puts it, the work "fully dissects the emotions that are rooted in the natural form." ”
Shara Hughes, The Sun, 2021
This characteristic of "external creation, middle gain" has also been continued in Hughes's latest creation. The 12-metre-long commissioned work Bridge is inspired by the forest, cliffs and waterfalls along the Hudson River along the KazicChi Mountains. Known as "America's First Landscape," the Hudson Valley has nurtured a generation of indigenous pioneers such as Thomas Cole and Frederick Church. However, the narrative logic of this panoramic work from left to right, the viewing perspective of moving different scenes, and the philosophical thinking of the unity of heaven and man and the endless life of life penetrate some of the charm of Chinese landscapes. "Day" and "Moon" exist as a double in the exhibition hall, through the same form and contradictory mood, so that the vast expanse is open to the audience without cover.
Shara Hughes, The Moon, 2021
Canetti once wrote in an essay, "The narrator 'I' in Montaigne's work. 'I' is space, not position. Sarah Hughes borrowed the songs of mountains and rivers, the change of morning and dusk, the flow of the four seasons, and the creation of the same light of the stars and the moon to construct a "me" that was "unrestrained and loyal to itself".
About the artist
Sarah Hughes
Sarah Hughes (b. 1981, Atlanta, Georgia) received her B.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and later attended the Skohigan School of Painting and Sculpture, where she now works and lives in Brooklyn. Hughes has exhibited extensively in institutions and museums. His solo exhibitions include: "Restlessness", St. Louis Museum of Modern Art, St. Louis, 2021; "Sarah Hughes", "Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, 2021); "The Axis", Dijon Centre for Contemporary Art, Dijon, 2021, etc.
Hughes' work is in the collections of major institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Denver Museum of Art, the Atlanta Higher Museum of Art, and the Jogé M. Lee Museum of Art. The M. Perez Collection, the Rachovsky Collection, etc.
“桥（The Bridge）”
Venue: Yuz Museum
The exhibition period is from November 6th to January 9th next year
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