Conversing with Place
Erin Hughes Solo Exhibition
Event Types: Visual Arts
Apr 29, 2025 10:00 AM — May 31, 2025 4:00 AM
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Liz Rundorff Smith
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Art & Light Gallery is pleased to present “Conversing With Place”, a solo exhibition of work by Erin Hughes (Anderson, S.C.) launching on the Art & Light website and in the gallery at 10:00 AM (EST) on Tuesday, April 29 with an opening reception on Friday, May 2 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM.
Erin Hughes is a self-taught artist best known for her mixed-media encaustic paintings. She was an emerging artist at Artisphere in 2024 and her work has been featured in Faire, Talk, and TOWN Carolina magazine. Through the process of carving, painting, and fusing layers of encaustic medium and oils, Hughes attempts to build the history of a relationship with the natural world. She focuses on the nuances of beauty, especially the influence of nostalgia and loss on our daily lives. As her career began in film photography, Erin’s paintings are highly influenced by the line of sight through a viewfinder where she decides what aspects of the landscape to include within the frame.
In “Conversing With Place” Hughes presents a collection of visual dialogues with places that offer the freedom to be out of time, examining time as it is bound with grief to our past, present, and future. Inspired by a Wendell Berry poem Hughes states, “Disentangled from the fragility of the current moment, I can resist and rest. The simple beauty of the sky connects me to the deathless presence of love never lost. Light changing on flowers as the day progresses speaks of an eternal conversation, a brief reprieve from my limited perspective. The encaustic painting process of melting wax, struggling to shape and layer the image, is a physical dynamic of the unpredictability of wax and time. As the wax cools, the resin establishes permanence, and time is bound yet again. The final landscape is a still point that holds the history of the conversation.”
