Joseph Hughes

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2006/ VI (THALO GREEN)
Acrylic/ linen
19.5 x 17.5 in 50 x 45 cm

 

Color Based Paintings III
Bechinger, Gál, Goodwin, Hughes, Iacchetti, Kaminsky, Ritschl, Rose, Shanahan, Streit, Tollens, Virnich, Wisniewska, Zeniuk
November 13, 2007 - January 26, 2008
Bergner + Job Galerie, Mainz, Germany

Joseph Hughes: New Paintings
September 7 - October 14, 2006
Takada Gallery, San Francisco


Joseph Hughes and Color Painting: Joseph Hughes has resolved, perhaps better than anyone else working today, the dauntingly complex relationship between the immaterial aura of color and the physical support that generates the color image.

Considered physically, Hughes's painting keeps the color superbly grounded to the surface of the canvas; considered metaphysically, his painting assures us with equal credibility that color resides in an immaterial realm... (continued)

-George Lawson, 2002

1941

Born in Moundsville, WV

1967 Moved to San Francisco, CA,
  Lives and works in San Francisco, CA
 


EDUCATION, HONORS AND AWARDS

1964 BA, Marshall University, 1964
Magna Cum Laude/ Honors in Art and English Literature
West Virginia Board of Education Fellowship
1964 University of London,
Graduate Tutorial Honors
1964 University of Cincinnati,
NDEA Graduate Fellowship
1967 MA, Marshall University,
Graduate Teaching Assistantship
1984 Who Is Who in American Art (New York)
1985 Men of Distinction (Cambridge)

 

joseph.f.hughes@att.net