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May Issue 2009
Charlotte Art
League in Charlotte, NC, Features Works by Michael E. Hughes
The Charlotte Art League
in Charlotte, NC, will present the exhibit, The Mayday Show,
featuring paintings by Michael E. Hughes, on view from May 1 -
15, 2009.
This installation features paintings by a single artist, a rarity
at the Charlotte Art League. Hughes has been a painter since 1977,
but this show features mostly paintings from 2006 through 2009.
It will be an installation of paintings in four parts, showing several aspects of Hughes' thought/creative process. But above all, this will be an entertaining art show, with paintings/imagery as wild as the viewers' mind is narrow.
Though painted from memory or imagination, most of the paintings deal with irony, desire, and the muse, but most of all, painting.
Hughes was born in Waynesboro,
VA, in 1959. He identified as being an artist from his earliest
days, drawing pictures from his imagination according to is mother.
His kindergarten and grade school teachers said he was outstanding
in art, noticing he drew in "3-D", probably referring
to an "illustionistic" quality.
Educated in the VA school system then attending VCU art school
in Richmond, VA, in 1977, he made his first real paintings. He
quit school in 1980 and played in punk rock bands as
song writer, guitarist/bassist and lead singer until 1988 when
he went back to school at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington
DC. Being an outstanding student, he was chosen for an independent
study at the Alliance of Independent Collages of Art in New
York, NY. in 1990.
Hughes moved to Philadelphia, PA, in early 1992,
working for ten years as a graphic artist in a sign factory. During
this time he was painting and making other art, playing in many
bands as a "sought after" musician and became a published
writer. Deciding he couldn't serve two masters he chose to concentrate
on painting, quitting music. After twelve years in Philly he left
in late 2004 and moved to the Charlotte area in 2005,
joining the Charlotte Art League where he maintains a studio and
just one of many artists traveling the same rocky, perpetually
uphill road. He now lives and continues to make paintings from
his imagination in Norwood, NC.
For further information
check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the League at
704/376-2787 or visit (www.charlotteartleague.org).
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