Growing pains
2022
- Medium
- oil, synthetic polymer paint and dye on canvas
- Measurements
- 220.8 × 208.0 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States
- Inscription
- inscribed in black chalk on reverse u.l.: 87 x 78 / NYC / “Growing Pains” / 2022 / SHARA HUGHES
- Accession Number
- 2024.139
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by July Cao, 2024
© Shara Hughes, David Kordansky Gallery - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Depicting imagined landscapes, Shara Hughes views her works as reflections of her psychological interior world. She suggests that a single flower might be ‘a self-portrait, while a landscape feels more like a zoomed-out view of what’s going on personally or emotionally’. Hughes uses abstract and representational imagery, depicting natural motifs, snake-like trees, reflections of bodies in water and night skies alongside abstracted, undefined forms. Her technique, in which she mixes pigment on the canvas surface, is reminiscent of a range of art historical references, including Post-Impressionist and Colour Field painting.
