Farida Hughes is an American painter and interdisciplinary artist driven by process and medium, and fluidity and control. She creates paintings and interdisciplinary artworks that are alive with color and luminosity, using transparency as a tool to act out a complexity of perspectives. Hughes leans into the richness of her heritage and her immediate environment to influence her shapes and design ideas. She develops works that invite connection to their audience through the optical color created by a buildup of transparent layers, and the surprise of punctuated biomorphic forms. Her glossy surfaces have a subtle dimensionality, letting ambient light reveal new edges and colors when seen from different vantage points.