
Berlin
2008
Shara Hughes's *Berlin* is a vivid, expressionistic landscape rendered in oil, acrylic, enamel, pen, and pencil on canvas, combining bold, gestural mark-making with a richly layered surface. Hughes's signature use of intense color and dynamic, rhythmic forms conjures an immersive environment that feels simultaneously dreamlike and charged with energy. The work reflects her distinctive approach to painting invented natural scenes, where the layering of diverse materials adds both visual complexity and raw, tactile immediacy.
- Medium
- oil, acrylic, enamel, pen and pencil on canvas
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
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February 28, 2018
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Amy Sillman
American · b. 1955

Sillman creates gestural, emotionally charged paintings that layer oil and acrylic with marks and drawn lines, producing surfaces of comparable visual complexity and rhythmic energy to Hughes's Berlin. Her invented, semi-abstract landscapes share the same vivid color intensity and neo-expressionist sensibility.

Dana Schutz
American · b. 1976

Schutz employs bold, turbulent brushwork and saturated color to construct imagined scenes that feel simultaneously dreamlike and viscerally alive, qualities directly parallel to Hughes's expressive invented landscapes. Her layered paint surfaces and dynamic compositions reflect the same neo-expressionist approach seen in Berlin.

Cecily Brown
British · b. 1969

Brown's densely layered oil paintings combine gestural mark making with swirling, immersive environments built from vibrant, energetic color, closely mirroring the charged atmospheric quality and material richness of Hughes's Berlin. Her work similarly blurs the boundary between figuration and abstraction within a lush, expressive painted surface.
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