Don’t Cry Because It Happened, Smile Because It’s Over

Ariane Hughes

July 8–August 5, 2023

Installation Views

Don't Cry Because It Happened, Smile Because It's Over. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2023

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Works

Ariane Hughes. Trust Me I Will Bite (poodletits), 2023. Oil on linen, 63 x 43 1/4 inches (160 x 110 cm)

Ariane Hughes. (not) Not An Abuser, 2023. Oil on linen, 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 inches (100 x 100 cm)

Ariane Hughes. (a two year) Mistake, 2023. Oil on linen, 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 inches (100 x 100 cm) a.hughes013070

Ariane Hughes. Don't Judge A Book etc (for the goodest girl), 2023. Oil on linen, 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 inches (100 x 100 cm)

Ariane Hughes. Me, Myself & I, 2023. Oil on linen, 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 inches (100 x 100 cm)

Ariane Hughes. Eyelashes Longer Than His, 2023. Oil on linen. 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 inches (50 x 50 cm)

Ariane Hughes. Don't Look At Me, 2023. Oil on linen, 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 inches (50 x 50 cm)

Ariane Hughes. Trust Me I Will Bite (poodletits), 2023. Oil on linen, 63 x 43 1/4 inches (160 x 110 cm)

Ariane Hughes. (not) Not An Abuser, 2023. Oil on linen, 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 inches (100 x 100 cm)

Ariane Hughes. (a two year) Mistake, 2023. Oil on linen, 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 inches (100 x 100 cm) a.hughes013070

Ariane Hughes. Don't Judge A Book etc (for the goodest girl), 2023. Oil on linen, 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 inches (100 x 100 cm)

Ariane Hughes. Me, Myself & I, 2023. Oil on linen, 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 inches (100 x 100 cm)

Ariane Hughes. Eyelashes Longer Than His, 2023. Oil on linen. 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 inches (50 x 50 cm)

Ariane Hughes. Don't Look At Me, 2023. Oil on linen, 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 inches (50 x 50 cm)

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Steve Turner is pleased to present Don’t Cry Because It Happened, Smile Because It’s Over, a solo exhibition by London-based Ariane Hughes that features a series of paintings that relate to emotional upheaval and the path to personal empowerment. Hughes uses her prodigious painting skills to depict hyper-real images that are at once absurd, menacing and humorous as well as sexy and grotesque. Inspired by experience and close observation, they more broadly relate to the selfie generation where personal relationships often commence on one’s iphone yet end in tears.

Ariane Hughes graduated from Camberwell College (2019), had a solo exhibition at GNYP, Berlin (2022) and has had work in numerous group exhibitions since 2019, most recently at Guts Gallery, London (2023). This is Hughes’ first solo exhibition with Steve Turner.

Born 1995, London
Lives and works in London

Education
2019 BA (Hons), Camberwell College of Arts, London

Solo Exhibitions
2023
Don’t Cry Because It Happened, Smile Because It’s Over, Steve Turner, Los Angeles

2022
Better Luck Next Time, GNYP Gallery, Berlin

2020
Off Kilter, Oped Space, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions
2023
Illuminations, Steve Turner, Los Angeles

2022
Untitled, Miami Beach (with Steve Turner)
Vacation II, Vacancy, Shanghai
Twin Sisters, Roman Road, London
Damned If I Do, Gallery 46, London

2021
Eyes Of The Night Creatures, Delphian Gallery
Don’t Go South, Studio Berkheim, Stuttgart
End of Roman Residency, Columbia Hotel, London
If The House Sets On Fire, Chapelle XIV, Paris
Art On A Postcard Summer Auction, Hoxton Gallery, London
Get A Load Of This, Daniel Raphael, London
In residency with Roman Road, Columbia Hotel, London
Caught In The Act, Wells Art Project Space, London
First Swing Of The Bat, Gallery 46, London
Mnemosyne, Purslane (Online)

2020
With Love, Paint Talk (Online)
GoWithYamo, Hoxton 253, London
Idle Thoughts, Soho Revue, London

Bibliography
2021
Torr, Rosa. “Interview. Ariane Heloise Hughes,” Les Nouveaux Riches, August 25

2020
“Linked Yet Contact Free,” 1883 Magazine, May 20
“Volume III: Be Your Own Muse,” Venomous