W. Jeremy Hughes
Assistant Professor Painting/Drawing
Painting Coordinator
Art Department, SUNY Oswego
Tyler 218
(315) 312 3244
http://www.jeremyhughesart.com
whughes@oswego.edu

Artist Statement:

My work investigates my changing perspective on places that are in perpetual shift such as the home, the landscape, and the complexities of human relationships within these spheres. I am interested in the continuous flux of day-to-day uncertainty. There are certain social conditions gestured to in these works, which are about complacency and the inevitable shock of abrupt change and violence. The paintings are sometimes improvised, at times calculated, and always depict an environment charged with anxiety. This anxiety becomes something palpable, lurking amidst the backdrop of painterly colorist abstraction. For me, painting possesses the immediacy required to communicate a whole experience in just a glimpse. What I seem to be striving for is this collective instead of the parts that may create it. This drive has drawn me to simplify in order to create a more accessible experience. My recent work is a closer examination of objects that represent human beings: houses, vehicles, trailers, and the various means in which we inhabit them. I enjoy emphasizing how these objects represent our personalities. Thus, the object/ground relationship I have discovered has been a solution to defining space/place.

My current paintings derive from the expansive image bank found in the internet, popular films, and other media sources. The paintings deconstruct cultural icons of the public consciousness. The images themselves are artificial, and are executed through references to art history and pop design. The types of scenes often evoke the uncanny, and re-present the strangeness of the familiar fast paced imagery thrown at us by consumer culture. These images stir up uneasiness, in a way that precipitates change and invigorates the viewer.

Education:

M.F.A. Drawing and Painting, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., 2003-2006
B.F.A Drawing and Painting, Georgia Southwestern State University, Americus, Ga., 1994-1999

Solo Exhibitions:

Transmissions, Mercury Lounge Gallery, Athens Ga., 2006
Mobility And Desire, Updown Gallery, Athens, Ga., 2005
Isolated Commonplace, Depalma’s Downtown, Athens, Ga., 2005
Anarchitectonics, Main Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, Ga., 2004
Jeremy Hughes: Recent Work, Riverbend Gallery, New Orleans, La., 2003

Selected Curated and Group Exhibitions:

Faculty Exhibition, Tyler Hall North Gallery, Art Department, SUNY Oswego, 2007
Art Can Cure, Orleans Hall Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah Ga., 2006
Introductions, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta Ga., 2006
Wall To Wall, Gallery 111, Dalton, Ga., 2006
University of Georgia Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, The Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Ga., 2006
Georgia Society of Contemporary Painters Open Studios Night, Cedar Street Art Studios, Athens, Ga., 2006
2^nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Updown Gallery, Athens, Ga., 2006
Katrina Relief Benefit, Updown Gallery, Athens, Ga., 2005
Circulation, Evolution Salon, Athens, Ga., 2005
New Abstracts, Bennett Gallery, Nashville, Tn., 2005
The Selected, Turner First Thursdays, Atlanta, Ga., 2005
CAA Show, Foyer Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, Ga., 2005
Open House, Cedar Street Art Studios, Athens, Ga., 2005
Lyndon House Arts Center 30th Juried Exhibition, juried by Benny Andrews, Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA., 2005
Grand Opening, Updown Gallery, Athens, Ga., 2005
The Blended Family, Georgia Society of Contemporary Painters, Foyer Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, Ga., 2005
Pin Up Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Ga., 2004
Group Exhibition, Bennett Gallery, Nashville, Tn., 2004
Lyndon House Arts Center 29th Juried Exhibition, juried by David C. Levy, Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA., 2004
M.F.A. Painting Show, Courtyard Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., 2004
Alumni Show, Georgia Southwestern State University, Americus, Ga., 2000
Jeremy Hughes: Paintings and Permanent Mural Installation, Bluebird Café’, Athens, Ga., 2000
Collective, Permanent Exhibition, Sociology Department, Georgia Southwestern State University, Americus, Ga., 2000

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor, Painting and Drawing, Painting Coordinator, Art Department SUNY Oswego, Spring 2007
Adjunct Professor, Foundation Studies, Drawing II, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., Fall 2006
Visiting Artist Lecturer, Savannah College Of Art and Design, Atlanta, Ga., Spring 2006
Nominated to represent Lamar Dodd School of Art for Annual UGA Arch Foundation Conference, Spring 2006
Instructor, Drawing II, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., Spring 2006
Instructor, Drawing I, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., Fall 2005
Teaching Assistant, Introductory Drawing, University of Georgia., Spring 2004

Awards Received

Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., 2005-2006
Wheatley Art Scholarships (5 awarded over a period of four years), Georgia Southwestern State University, Americus, Ga., 1995-1999

Selected Publications

Flagpole Magazine, Cover art, Athens Ga. Letter to Editor on recent experience of Art Censorship., August 2006
Atlanta Journal and Constitution, “Young Artists Go Deep,” Review by Jerry Cullum, 07/09/06, July 2006
New American Paintings, Volume 64, 2005/2006 Southern Edition. Men's Room 2005 selected for cover by juror Trevor Richardson, Director, Hertor Art Gallery University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 2006
Athens Banner-Herald, “Students Draw on New Perspective,” Athens Ga., February 2006
Flagpole Magazine, Review in Art Around Town, Athens, Ga., Summer 2005
Athens Banner-Herald, “Pieces of Greatness,” Athens, Ga., February 2005
Flagpole Magazine, Cover art, Mural and recent works Athens, Ga., June 2000
Clay & Pine Magazine of Literary & Visual Art, Cover art and inset, Americus, Ga., Spring 1998�