Photography
Edward McHugh, "Laurel Hill 1," 2006
- Item Number
- 6
- Estimated Value
- 1900 USD
- Leading Bid
- 975 USD
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
Edward McHugh (American, b. 1969)
Laurel Hill 1, 2006
Wax-diffused pigment print mounted to sintra
Image: 18 x 24 inches
Artist Proof 1/2
Signed and dated on back in pencil
Well regarded for his minimalist paintings, drawings, and sculpture, Edward McHugh has brought the same elegant command of form, layering, and arrangement to his photography.
At first glance, McHugh’s studies of light and landscape like Laurel Hill 1 evoke 17th century Dutch art as well as the painterly and photographic traditions of the 19th century.
But, as Martin McNamara of Gallery 339 in Philadelphia points out, McHugh draws upon “a more complex range of both contemporary and historic sources to play with our perceived ideas of the beautiful and the banal, abstraction and representation, and the real and the contrived.”
The blurring between painting and photography is further evinced in the brushed application of a thin layer of archival wax to the surface of the print.
About The Artist
Edward McHugh was born and raised in Philadelphia and currently lives and works in the city. He studied at the Hussian School of Art in Philadelphia and Crown Pointe Press in San Francisco. He has had exhibitions at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Colorado, Gallery 339 in Philadelphia (his gallery representative), Robert Klein Gallery in Boston, Works on Paper in Philadelphia, and Connor Contemporary in Washington, DC.
His work is in numerous public and private collections and has been presented at prestigious art fairs, including Art Chicago, the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) Fair in New York, and Art Santa Fe.
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