Christine Hughes, Friday Night at Green Kill, March 2026
Friday Night at Green Kill takes place twice a month every month. March event dates are March 6 7-10 PM and March 20, 7 - 10 PM.
Join Christine Hughes at Friday Night at Green Kill, March 6, 7-10 PM and March 20, 7 - 10 PM.
Christine Hughes
Christine Hughes was born in 1955 and grew up in the Detroit suburbs. Early on she was influenced by the paintings of her mother and her two uncles who taught her the Sicilian love of art. She moved downtown, attended Wayne State University (BFA) and connected with the Cass Corridor Artists whose work grew out of the crumbling post-industrial Detroit landscape. She moved to NYC in 1980.
Hughes is a painter known for her work with imagery culled from nature. Her drawings of “compost” explore these forms and are a starting place for her paintings. For the past several years, working with a limited palette of enamels, she incorporates the image of a scholars stone as ground and layers upon this a cacophony of sticks, stems, vines which create movement, balance and humor.
She is currently also making a series of small paintings on paper which further abstract, simplify and distill these iconic forms into what she refers to as physical abstraction.
She is a founding member/writer of the online art magazine Arteidolia, where for ten years she wrote reviews and interviews .
Hughes has shown prolifically since 1980 including; The Drawing Center NYC, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, Bard College, The NY Studio School, Icebox4, Art 101 Brooklyn, the Millay Colony, Woodstock Byrdcliff Guild, John Davis Gallery, the Willis Gallery and Alley Culture in Detroit. Her work is in numerous collections.
She received the Pollock Krasner Grant in 2022 and a Rauschenberg award in 2024.
Friday Night at Green Kill
Starting March 2026, Green Kill invites visual artists to be part of Friday Night at Green Kill, a lively salon-like monthly exhibition program where creativity meets community. Each artist can display one artwork (painting, print, or photograph) up to 30” x 60”. To join, send an image of your piece, a short artist statement, and a participation request to 229greenkill@greenkill.org. If accepted, your work will be featured online and exhibited during first and third Friday events—with up to 15 artists per night. There’s no entry fee, and you can sell your artwork (up to $2,000) with a 30% gallery commission on sales. Come enjoy an evening of art, open mic performances, and good company! Learn more.
