Kerry Hugins

About the artwork

Artist Statement:
As Hyperphantasiac, I am an artist, who brings entire worlds to life within the realm of my imagination. Through my three distinct series—the grids, the wildflowers, and my newer dark sky paintings—I explore the complexities of time, memory, light, all while utilizing a vivid and emotive palette that reflects contemporary issues and our intertwined emotional responses to them.

My unique perspective as a neurodivergent individual, combined with my experience growing up moving from country to country, has imbued my art with a deep sense of cultural disassociation and a rejection of assimilation. In my year-long sojourn at an Ashram, I found a deeper integration of realities and existential musings around my identity as a mother, person, and artist.

By harnessing the alchemy of color and activism, I seek to transform the exploitation and banality of everyday life into a joyous celebration of the present moment, the memento vivere. Through my art, and my meditation practice which includes my painting practice; I strive to make a contribution to the greater consciousness that we all share, unlocking the sensory aggregates of our collective experience.
minimalist, painting, colorful, mixed media, representations of nature/landscapes, bold, abstract, prints
$100-$250, $250-$500, $500-$1000

About the Artist

Kerry Hugins is a contemporary watercolor artist in Austin, TX. Her work explores Panpsychism, expanded consciousness, complex emotions, being alone, being raised the foreign kid, adhd, motherhood, children, constraining the past and future. Her most recent work is interested in the pursuit of grasping and tracking time, protecting our dark skies and spotting rare wildflowers to paint and grow. Hugins work is about climate justice centered, color field art, about the primal importance of darkness. We need daylight and darkness the effects of light pollution on the climate, migrating animals like birds who migrate in the millions at night, plants life cycle and even our own bodies abilities to produce hormones for relaxation and deep sleep and restoration. All require certain amounts of pure darkness that modern society is stripping society of the magnificent darkness. Essentially her work explores memory, colour in mainly the medium of watercolour.
Hugins grew up the daughter of an American Diplomat and was raised moving around the world, resulting in her cultural disassociation. Hugins has exhibited in numerous group shows across the United States. She has done a residency at El Sur, in Mexico City and earned her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.