Local Artists Hughes and Wilkes, OH Weekend
Recent work by two Marfa-based artists, Martha Hughes and Leslie Wilkes, will be on display at Hughes’s studio during Chinati Open House weekend. The studio is located at 407 W. San Antonio St. (Highway 90), across from the Judd Block. The exhibit will be open for viewing October 5, 6, and 7 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Hughes will show acrylic paintings from a series entitled “Scenes.” The series comprises images of mundane living spaces painted in flat areas of color. “Stylistically, paintings in the Scenes series are influenced by my interest in artwork by children, outsiders and the insane,” said Hughes. “My intention is to portray the unsettling feelings of disorientation and alienation that can unexpectedly wash over us, often in the most familiar, commonplace environments.”
Hughes received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions across the USA. She works in a variety of media, including paint, photography and computer-based media. Her photographic work is represented in Marfa by Marty Carden’s Highland Gallery.
Wilkes will exhibit new paintings and gouaches based on geometric design. The works in this exhibition explore variations on a single grid-based repeat. The pattern, appropriated from a 1970’s graphics guidebook, begins as a line drawing, within which Wilkes uses layers of color to explore variable compositions. Every color shift redirects the rhythm of the pattern, creating a kind of controlled chaos.
The vibrant color combinations visually bend, warp and undulate within the painting. These effects disrupt the viewer’s ability to process the image as a whole and induce an unconscious attempt to reassemble the pattern. Looking at the paintings, labyrinths of shape and color, yields a kind of meditative pleasure.
Currently residing in Marfa, Wilkes received a BA from the University of Texas and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Austin and Marfa. She attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was the recipient of the Milton and Sally Avery fellowship at the MacDowell Colony. Before moving to Marfa in 2005, she was Fine Arts Graduate Program Manager and faculty member at the California College of the Arts.
Where: 407 W. San Antonio Street (across from the Judd Block)
Hughes will show acrylic paintings from a series entitled “Scenes.” The series comprises images of mundane living spaces painted in flat areas of color. “Stylistically, paintings in the Scenes series are influenced by my interest in artwork by children, outsiders and the insane,” said Hughes. “My intention is to portray the unsettling feelings of disorientation and alienation that can unexpectedly wash over us, often in the most familiar, commonplace environments.”Hughes received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions across the USA. She works in a variety of media, including paint, photography and computer-based media. Her photographic work is represented in Marfa by Marty Carden’s Highland Gallery.
Wilkes will exhibit new paintings and gouaches based on geometric design. The works in this exhibition explore variations on a single grid-based repeat. The pattern, appropriated from a 1970’s graphics guidebook, begins as a line drawing, within which Wilkes uses layers of color to explore variable compositions. Every color shift redirects the rhythm of the pattern, creating a kind of controlled chaos.The vibrant color combinations visually bend, warp and undulate within the painting. These effects disrupt the viewer’s ability to process the image as a whole and induce an unconscious attempt to reassemble the pattern. Looking at the paintings, labyrinths of shape and color, yields a kind of meditative pleasure.
Currently residing in Marfa, Wilkes received a BA from the University of Texas and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Austin and Marfa. She attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was the recipient of the Milton and Sally Avery fellowship at the MacDowell Colony. Before moving to Marfa in 2005, she was Fine Arts Graduate Program Manager and faculty member at the California College of the Arts.
Where: 407 W. San Antonio Street (across from the Judd Block)
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