TERRI HUGHES: Laboratory/Library

Joseph Clayes III Gallery

TERRI HUGHES

Laboratory/Library

May 5–June 9, 2001

In a mixed media, interactive installation, San Diego artist Terri Hughes turned the Athenaeum gallery into an imaginary laboratory, the workplace of an imaginary scientist who is researching the health effects of sugar on the human body. She created human organs such out of layers of sugar. For the library component, she lined up anti-sugar and pro-sugar books, along with desks where visitors studied in the library. The exhibition also included “A story of sugar”—a collection of photographs about sugar. Ms. Hughes received her Master of Fine Arts degree from San Diego State University in 1996 and was teaching at SDSU and MiraCosta Community College at the time of the exhibition. Among her solo exhibitions have been those at the Huntington Beach Library and Cultural Center, and the San Diego Ceramic Connection Gallery. She was among the artists chosen for the 2001 juried exhibition at the Oceanside Museum of Art.