{"id":33936,"date":"2012-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galerierichelieu.com\/?post_type=artiste&#038;p=33936"},"modified":"2025-06-16T15:07:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:07:33","slug":"louis-hughes","status":"publish","type":"artiste","link":"https:\/\/www.galerierichelieu.com\/en\/artistes\/louis-hughes\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Biography<\/h3>\n<p>Louis Hughes was born in Montreal (Qc) in 1958. <\/p>\n<h3>Training<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Studies in Political Science and Marketing at Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al (UQAM)<\/li>\n<li>Studies in French Literature at Concordia University, Montreal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Awards<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>2002 &#8211; Selected artist to represent Canadian art in a special exhibition in Boston, MA (USA) <\/li>\n<li>2002-2001-2000 &#8211; Selected artist, sale and rental, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Qc) <\/li>\n<li>1998 &#8211; Honorable mention, general public, Centre Teilhard de Chardin, Montreal (Qc) 1996 &#8211; Selected artist, art competition, Centre Teilhard de Chardin, Montreal (Qc) <\/li>\n<li>1994 &#8211; Art and painting symposium, Melbourne (Qc)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Exhibitions<\/h3>\n<p>Louis Hughes holds solo Exhibitions and participates in group shows since 1994, not only in Quebec, but also in Toronto (Ont.) and Massachussets (USA). <\/p>\n<h3>Collections<\/h3>\n<p>Louis Hughes&#8217; works can be found in many Private Collections in Canada:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CGI, Montreal (Qc)<\/li>\n<li>CIA CPCC Inc, Montreal (Qc)<\/li>\n<li>SECOR, Montreal (QC)<\/li>\n<li>Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, Trois-Rivi\u00e8res (Qc)<\/li>\n<li>National Bank, Montreal, QC<\/li>\n<li>Conseil des Produits des P\u00e2tes et Papiers du Qu\u00e9bec, Montreal<\/li>\n<li>INVESTPRO Securities, Repentigny, QC<\/li>\n<li>Cin\u00e9mas Guzzo inc, Quebec City<\/li>\n<li>Elmag Investments, Qu\u00e9bec<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and also abroad :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Ch\u00e2teau Residence Club, Beaver Creek, CO (USA)<\/li>\n<li>Mc Donald Restaurant, New Glasgow, NA (USA)<\/li>\n<li>Rudolf Wendel S.A., lighting company, France<\/li>\n<li>F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Sport sur Glace, Lausanne, Switzerland<\/li>\n<li>Gaub Cosmetik, Austria<\/li>\n<li>Sandalwood Managements, Texas (USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>as well as in the Middle East and Africa.<\/p>\n<p>His work is on permanent display at <em>Galerie Richelieu<\/em> in Montreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Hughes&#8217;s paintings are vivid scenes charged with the atmosphere, color and soul of Quebec&#8217;s great outdoors scenery.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes profiles his landscapes in depth, interposing visual planes. He carefully places his subjects, whose white presence is enhanced by the colors of their bright or fading autumn surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas Louis Hughes loves to apply touches of acrylic to his canvases in bold or intense colors, he equally excels in animating pure whites and illuminating barren landscapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31567,"template":"","class_list":["post-33936","artiste","type-artiste","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerierichelieu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artiste\/33936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerierichelieu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artiste"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerierichelieu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artiste"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerierichelieu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artiste\/33936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerierichelieu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerierichelieu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}