Natalya Hughes: Girls Girls Girls

Overview

At Firstdraft this month, Natalya Hughes is importing the decor of sleaze into her practice. Girls Girls Girls, taking its cue from the neon strip club slogan, presents the unlikely union of seedy nightclubs and geometric abstraction. This may be a continuation of a theme she initiated with her 2013 exhibition, Bachelor Pads, at Alaska Projects.

Hughes’ works are often multilayered and almost kaleidoscopic. She disrupts binaries, such as clean and dirty or pure and impure. She reworks decorative styles of painting that sprang out of 19th-century aestheticism, bringing them into a post-human internet era. And once again, sexuality seems to be the current bubbling underneath these colourful and not-so-innocent works.

Also exhibiting at Firstdraft this month is Henry Jock Walker, Justin Balmain and Sam Songailo. Join the opening party on Wednesday, June 3.