[Daniel Silk]

www.shootinggallerysf.com -Show Press Release -

Passing Through
New works by Hush
Opening Reception: May 1st, 2010, from 7-11 pm.
Show runs through: June 5th, 2010, and is open to the public.

The Shooting Gallery is proud to present Passing Through: New works by Hush. This
exhibit honors the empowered modern women while celebrating the creative expression
of street art. Please join us for the opening reception on Saturday, May 1st 2010, from
7-11 pm.
Hush uses a collision of Eastern and Western imagery to celebrate the modern woman.
His manga inspired female forms speak of the strength and power that present day
women own, confronting the viewer with a contemporary take on traditional figure
painting. These anime women overlay a graffiti style background that references
Western imagery in appreciation of cross-cultural influences of Asian culture and
Western values.

Passing Through is a darker body of work visiting the concept of life and death.
This progression on the part of Hush reveals deeper, more mature paintings. Following
in suit with themes of the ephemeral, these works are inspired by Hushʼs frequent
travels and the graffiti he documents along the way. Each transient mark is evidence of
one action and one creative expression, despite its gradual degradation over time.

Hush has developed a process of layering and defacing his canvases to mimic years of
tags and wheat paste on a city wall. To begin, Hush covers the canvas with paint, graffiti
tags, and collaged photocopies from graphic novels and old comics. He then uses
blown up hand drawings of manga girls and screen prints them onto the canvas,
embracing the mediumʼs imperfections by masking off specific parts to be hand painted
in later. Hush paints and tags between screens to achieve a complex multilayered
texture, defacing the work to reference the weathered, transient quality of street art.

Hush lives and works in the United Kingdom where he has shown extensively with
Urban Angel (London) and Opus Art (London and Newcastle). His international
repertoire extends to Scope Miami, Art Basel Switzerland, Fifty24SF Gallery (San
Francisco), and Carmichael Gallery (Los Angeles).

Please join us for the opening reception of Passing Through: New Works by Hush on
Saturday, May 1st, 2010, from 7-11pm. The exhibit will be on view through June 5th,
2010, and is open to the public.

[Martin DK]

Should be a good one!

[neale]

Look forward to seeing this,hopefully will have moved on from the manga images

[Graffiti Prints]

sort of has they have defo grown up did you see his last piece it was much less lolita and more fine art.

[Daniel Silk]

hushstudio.blogspot.com/



'Looking West' Show Print
Shooting Gallery - San Francisco, 1st May 2010

Taking pre-release orders now 'we think!! '
Contact: [e-mail]

'Looking West'
Edition 50
5aps, 2 pps

Size: 600mm x 600mm

Details:
on textured 300gsm paper with hand torn edges
Giclee print with 4 colour screen print & spot varnish

Signed and numbered by the artist

Price: $400

[Daniel Silk]

hush shooting gallery

[fielder]

Congratulations to Hush on another great looking show . Looks like only one piece plus the show print still available.

[Karl Read]

Really tempted for that show print, anyone pick one up?

[vanilla17]

Tempted myself but managed to control the urge to buy.

[Karl Read]

May 6, 2010 20:44:31 GMT 1 vanilla17 said:

Tempted myself but managed to control the urge to buy.

That kinda what im thinking.
With shipping plus customs fees, it will be quite expensive and for a large (ish) edition for him, seems a bit much.

[Martin DK]

I like his new direction, feels more mature if you can say that, anyways, very nice stuff, the print looks great.

[Karl Read]

May 6, 2010 21:20:55 GMT 1 Martin DK said:

I like his new direction, feels more mature if you can say that, anyways, very nice stuff, the print looks great.

Yeah agree, this new body of work looks a lot more mature, i like it.

[Daniel Silk]

Hush - Painting in the Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, May 1st 2010

[Sohoria]

dont think anyone can deny artist of the future... looking at video think pure art and love seeing the drips... s

[Daniel Silk]

Hush - Painting in the Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, May 1st 2010

[Daniel Silk]

www.flickr.com/photos/misskimsf/4581646715/