Anti-reflective Glass Shara Hughes Pop (2021) - A0 format

Poster with anti-reflectiv glass of the work Pop (2021), by the American artist Shara Hughes (b. 1981). The poster comes pre-framed with a matte laminated surface, which significantly reduces reflections from light sources compared to ordinary glass, and provides a beautiful, calm visual expression without glare. The frame is made of oak veneer.

Shara Hughes uses a wealth of techniques and masterfully references art history in her vibrant paintings, and is especially recognized for her invented landscapes.

The work Pop was created as a series of large-format paintings. Hughes has let various flowers play a leading role, and here, poppies fill the foreground of the canvas, making it difficult to discern the landscape element that seems to lie behind.

The title of the work elegantly plays with the English word for poppy – and 'pop', which is both popular culture and an art movement that embraced precisely this culture. But pop is also the sound of something bursting open. And so we return to the budding, the poppies springing forth here and there and finally covering the canvas. Pop, pop.

Shara Hughes was interviewed in 2019 by Louisiana Channel in her studio in Brooklyn, New York. In the interview, she discussed drawing inspiration from other painters and why she feels a good painting is about "going to the edge and not giving all the answers." Watch the interview here.