Lauren Hughes' Comic Art Opening

Featured Artist for January 2010

Lauren Hughes

First exhibit at Boxcar Books in 2010 celebrates the creativity of Lauren Hughes. Born in Miami , Florida , Hughes currently resides in Bloomington, where she is finishing up her last year of course work for a Doctorate in Music from Indiana University. From an early age became interested in art and comic book artwork. She began drawing, illustrating, and developing her own characters using influences around her to shape her work. Hughes works mostly with pen and ink, pencil, and marker.

Evolution: A show of comic art is one of Hughes’ first exhibits, representing the fruits of one of her long time passions and interest, superheroes, featured artistically from new perspectives: Hughes’ characters are often inspired from real life personages and act in real life circumstances:

“These illustrations are intended to display superheroes and other characters in real life situations as well as those imaginary. Influences are taken from Bloomington , comic books, and other story lines. Works are intended to be like splash pages, showing a detailed scene on one page.”

Lauren Hughes

Evolution: A show of comic art will be on display at Boxcar Books through Wednesday, February 3, 2010. Boxcar Books is hosting an opening reception for the exhibit on Friday, January the 8th, 2010, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.