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T.M. Hughes..., an American multi-media artist,
photographer, experimental film-maker, Air Force Veteran, Mensen, amateur
astronomer, poet, musician, teacher, and minister, living a split existence
between the city of Berlin, Germany and the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. His
work is sharing a growing popularity amongst private collections and can be
found in more than 50 countries on 6 continents. He is truly an artist in the
classical sense in that he creates strictly from a soul driven need to express
that which he cannot articulate. Additionally, he ignores completely any
restriction which concerns style or media and feels he can use anything he can
get his hands on, "as long as the work gets created, it does not matter what media I choose to work in, I simply learn and master every media I need to use in order to create the work..."
In 1993, T.M. Hughes founded the Contemporary Expressionists which supports the ideology of painting as necessity as opposed to commodity, creating honestly and freely without societal hindrance. This movement directly confronts the Post-Modern Dilemma and in short dissolves the problem completely.
Written by: J.M. Lange, Alban Eiler Contemporary Art.
(Photograph by K. Lüttringhaus)
T.M. Hughes Opens at the Süd-Ost Galerie
Süd-Ost Galerie located in the Süd-Ost Europa Kulturzentrum in Berlin.
The exhibition shamelessly confronts the Post-Modern Dilemma; (the most fundamental problem associated with the fine arts since the collapse of Modernism), with a new and highly innovative philosophy of human creativity Hughes calls "Contemporary Expressionism".
Through exquisitely rendered graphite drawings of children in subtile oil painted environments, the exhibition discusses such controversial subjects as: human growth and development, child abuse and the depiction of the child in fine art, as well as, the subject of the creation of art as a healing process.
Hughes, a professional artist residing in Berlin since 1995, suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder resulting from a very abusive and dysfunctional childhood. Most of the works in the exhibition are based on his own childhood experiences.
Written by: Danilo Pravica, Director ~ Süd-Ost Galerie ~ Berlin, Germany
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