Patrick Hughes: A New Perspective
November 3, 2022 - January 7, 2023
Adelson Galleries is delighted to present Patrick Hughes: A New Perspective. This exhibition — Hughes' first solo show in New York since 2017 — exemplifies the artist’s array of subject matter, from Venetian scenes to complex interiors and still lives. The exhibition is primarily composed of new Reverspective paintings exhibited for the first time, as well as several of Hughes’ collaged paintings and multiples.
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The Fuller Building
595 Madison Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, NY
Monday - Friday, 11am - 6pm
Patrick Hughes writes, “From 1959 to 1989 I spent most of my time as an artist thinking about what I should do and how I should do it; and a smaller amount of time actually doing it. When I started making the reverspectives in 1990 more time was spent doing the art, because it was more laborious to construct and paint in the illusionistic way – works could take months to make. The process changed and speeded up when I started using a computer to do the scanning and transforming. I can see now from the perspective of sixty years making art, that in the first half of my career I was interested in showing people visual paradox and contradiction, but in the second half, with my reverspective three-dimensional paintings, I encourage people to experience these paradoxes for themselves. Another way of looking at the career is that my early work was poetic and my later work sensory and theatrical.”
