Tom Hughes
County: King County
Website: http://www.tomhughes.org
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![Hughes_portrait_ATWEB](https://media.artisttrust.org/assets/artists/Hughes_portrait_ATWEB.jpg)
Awards
Grants for Artist Projects 2012
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About
Tom Hughes currently lives and works in the Puget Sound area. His dad is a poet. He tries to read difficult books. His artwork has been exhibited internationally; most recently at Global Village 2012, in the Netherlands, France and Denmark, and earlier in Rome and Brasilia, Brazil. Domestic exhibitions highlights include Alternating Currents: Beyond/In WNY, Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY, and the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art in Staten Island, NY. Hughes earned his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Tom received a 2012 GAP to defray costs of producing his solo debut exhibition at Gallery4Culture in Seattle. This major installation piece will be a construction of one of several temporary cardboard architectural structures. The structures will house text that will function as inner narrative and stream of consciousness for the structure.
Featured Works
![Hughes_04_Fort_Sully_built1_ATWEB](https://media.artisttrust.org/assets/art/Hughes_04_Fort_Sully_built1_ATWEB.jpg)
Fort Sully, cardboard, latex paint, enamel on acrylic, screws and bricks, 2012.
![Hughes_02_The_Shotgun_Method_ATWEB](https://media.artisttrust.org/assets/art/Hughes_02_The_Shotgun_Method_ATWEB.jpg)
The Shotgun Method, particle board, enamel on acrylic, electrical lights, 2010.
![Hughes_01_A_time_machine_for_now_ATWEB](https://media.artisttrust.org/assets/art/Hughes_01_A_time_machine_for_now_ATWEB-1024x432.jpg)
A time machine, for now, cardboard, enamel on acrylic, composite view of installation, 2011.