Artist Statement, 2024
Influenced by her international experiences, Hugins’ art visually resonates with color field painting in modern art, employing color and form to infuse grids with depth and movement. Hugins’ work reflects on memory, predominantly through the medium of watercolor. A self-described global nomad, this sentiment has transformed into a unique way of feeling at home in many places, emphasizing the interconnectedness we share on this planet.
The grid paintings afford engaging in a state of meditation, having no control on society. The grids explore death, and regeneration, exploring the life cycle of humans and flowers as our bodies grow and degrade. Hugins’ grids explore narratives around place of being as data art. Hugins hopes the grid paintings create a transformative effect of an inner listening that prioritizes wonder.
The flower paintings are pouring part of Hugins consciousness into art. In the dark sky flower paintings using UV light, Hugins is painting the portrait of flowers as bees see them. People cannot see the secret range of colors without the aid of a UV light. These colors communicate pertinent information from the flowers to pollinators. Hugins sees the flower as a living meditative portent, a signal to slow down, celebrate, and be in awe of the genius ingenuity of nature. Inherently, Hugins realized recently her work is has a lifelong thread in the exploration of light.
Hugins has showcased her art in group exhibitions across the United States and completed a residency at El Sur in Mexico City, a visiting artist at Ceramica Suro, in Guadalajara Mexico. She earned her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.