Blake Hughes

Currently with my pieces I strive to use classical figures and traditions in a contemporary manner, to turn an ever mindful eye towards the history of art to reinterpret current social events. This hope to tackle subject matter with an eye towards social consciousness has led me to strive and push my limitations with various media, experimenting to find some way to comment on and attempt to tackle modern issues through art. This outward turn towards influences must also be meet with the inward turn as well and I reflect on my own Buddhist beliefs through art and experimentation, and by exploring a deep fascination with the iconography of Christ, Mother Mary, and those around them in the Western art tradition, as so many of these images formed the basis for my experience of fine art. During these explorations I will be turning to modern artists like Julie Mehretu, whose abstract compositions, with strong linear flow mixed with organic expressions create a visual plane unlike few others, and Eileen DeKooning, who serves as a critical and poignant innovator of abstract expressionism and who I have found a profoundly personal bond via her teaching of my professor and mentor Stan Sporny.

2010 BFA - Marshall University

Daylight Artist Collective
New Beginnings Group Show - March 2023

83 Gallery
January Group Show - January 2023

Camelback Gallery
All Abstract Artists, Bronze Award - December 2022

934 Gallery
Mind Your Business Pop Up Show - October 2022

ArtAscent V55 Abstract Publication
Distinguished Artist - July 2022

Studio 659
Yes, I Am - Group Show - June 2022

Gallery 83
Death, Taxes, 83 Gallery Reunion Show - April 2022

Rhode Island Watercolor Society
Celebrating Color Group Show - February 2022

Hilliard Gallery
State of Contemporary Drawing Group Show - November - December 2021

934 Gallery
Space/Time Group Show - November 2021

Art Fluent
Connection, Group Show. August - September 2021.

IncuArts Gallery
Persist, Persevere, Be, Group Show. May 2021.

Art Show International
Honorable Mention Award in Abstract Category, Online Juried Exhibiton Show. February - March 2021.

Yellowstone Art Museum
Art Auction & Group Show, Billings, MT. January 2021 - March 2021.

Ohio Art League
OAL HomeWorks Group Show, Columbus, OH. December 2020.

Roy G Biv
Peace Out 2020 Group Show, Columbus, OH. December 2020.

Jones Gallery
Group Show, Kansas City, MO. November 2020.

Wild Goose Creative
Chroma group show, Columbus, OH. June 2019.

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