Shara Hughes - New Now London Tuesday, July 13, 2021 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Exhibition A, New York
    Heritage Auctions, New York, 30 June 2020, lot 37003
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • 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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It's More Than a Guilty Pleasure

signed, numbered and dated '2017 12/50 Shara Hughes 12/15' on the artist's labels affixed to the reverse; signed 'SHARA HUGHES' on the stretcher
archival pigment print, in artist's hand-painted frame
68.7 x 60.7 cm (27 x 23 7/8 in.)
Executed in 2017, this work is number 12 from an edition of 50 of which 15 unique, hand-painted frames were produced.

Estimate
£5,000 - 8,000 

Sold for £6,300

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London Auction 13 July 2021