Artist
Patrick Hughes
Despite being largely self-taught, Patrick Hughes devised a unique and intricate style of painting known as ‘reverspective’ which has been widely admired (and sometimes copied). Hughes’s signature 3D paintings of galleries, streets and landscapes are designed so that viewers can interact with them to create incredible optical illusions of movement. He made his first work in this way in 1964, but then abandoned the process until 1990, instead making art works including a famous series of rainbows, in which the bands of light hung from washing lines, seeped through prison-esque windows or sat on plates like slices of melon.
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Subjects for Hughes’s reverspectives include giant, coffee-tables books, Banksy-adorned brick walls, and landscapes of Venetian palaces.
Country of Birth
UK
Auction Record
£98,500
Christie's South Kensington, 'For the Venice Biennale', 2015
Notable Collections
The British Library, London, UK
Tate, London, UK
Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Würth Museum, Künzelsau, DE
Notable Exhibitions
The Perspective Paradox, Hang-Up Gallery, London, UK, 2021
Patrick Hughes: Moving Spaces, Osthaus Museum, Hagen, DE, 2015
Solo Retrospective, Art Chicago, Chicago, USA, 2004
Reverspective, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK, 1998
Exhibitions by Patrick Hughes
Hang-Up Curates Vol. III
Banksy,Bridget Riley,Grayson Perry,Harland Miller,José Parlá,JR,Nancy Fouts,Patrick Hughes,Tracey Emin,Yoshitomo Nara
17 Jan 2022 – 1 Mar 2022
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