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Patrick Hughes (born 20 October 1939) is a British artist working in London. He is the creator of "reverspective", an optical illusion on a three-dimensional surface where the parts of the picture which seem farthest away are actually physically the nearest.
About Patrick Hughes. Patrick held his first solo show in 1961 at the Portal Gallery, London. It was the first one-man show by a Pop Artist, though they were not even called that then. Three and four years later, Hughes made two seminal reverse perspective works, Infinity and Sticking-out Room.
Biography - 108 Words. Patrick Hughes lives and works in London. His works are in collections including The British Library, the Tate Gallery and the British Academy in London; the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow; The Würth Museum, Künzelsau and the Baker Museum, Florida.
News. Patrick Hughes (British, b.1939) is an artist known for the creation of reverspective, which is an optical illusion of a three-dimensional surface in which the various parts of the image appear farthest away when they are actually physically at the nearest point.
Jun 2, 2015 · Artsy Editorial. Jun 2, 2015 12:45PM. Through his strikingly illusionistic paintings, British artist Patrick Hughes takes viewers into New York City apartments lined with Pop Art, picturesque Venetian canals, and famous museums like MoMA and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
Patrick Hughes was born in Birmingham, England. His first exhibition was in 1961 and his first 'reverspective' was made in 1964. He has been exhibiting with Angela Flowers Gallery, London since 1970. He has written and collated three books on visual and verbal rhetoric.
Known for his artistic invention 'reverspective', Patrick Hughes is a British artist living and working in London. Hughes challenges rules of perspectives, both in his print and three-dimensional works creating a new reality and space.
