Stephen Hughes Robert Mann Gallery announces a new exhibition of work by British artist Stephen Hughes. Stephen Hughes is drawn to marginal landscapes, often where the urban and the natural worlds jut up against one another. Each location is carefully selected, but nothing is staged; Hughes captures unexpected moments by observing life as it unfolds before him. David Chandler examines some of these moments in his essay on the artist's work: "a family holds hands as they peer over the cliffs of Beachy Head, edging towards oblivion; the sci-fi architecture of the Atomium in Brussels looms over a young couple as they embrace in a featureless park; and a child lays prone, gazing through the glass roof of Sunderland's Glass Museum". In each photograph, occurrences such as these prompt us to question what is transpiring and to anticipate what might come next. The work of Stephen Hughes is invested with this sense of possibility - an expectation that in these peripheral, dream-like landscapes, anything might happen. Stephen Hughes was born in Brighton, England in 1968. Exhibited for the first time in 2001 at the De La Warr Pavilion, he has since shown work in France, Germany and the United States. He is featured in the current issue of "Blind Spot" (#28) and has appeared in numerous art magazines including Tema Celeste, Portfolio and Camera Austria. PhotoWorks and De La Warr Pavilion published "Stephen Hughes: Photographs" for his inaugural exhibition in 2001. Stephen Hughes is currently an Arts Council England International Research Fellow in photography at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He lives and works in Brighton, England. Exhibition: January 13 - March 5, 2005 Gallery hours: Tue-Sat 11am - 6pm Robert Mann Gallery 210 Eleventh Avenue (between 24th & 25th Streets, Floor 10) USA-New York, NY 10001 Telephone +1 212 989 7600 Fax +1 212 989 2947 www.robertmann.com |
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