Group Projects

Breathing House Postcard Project

A collaborative art project born from the Covid Pandemic with, Karen Dana Cohan, Laura Rosengren, Shari-Anne Vis and Montserrat Serra Nonell 2021 - Ongoing

In the time of hiddenness, five artists investigate how their artwork can be known differently: on fences, through windows, on couches, in forests, on streets. The art was created, photographed somewhere unexpected, printed on a postcard and sent to you, crossing borders and contexts. Becoming a collaboration through connection.

Can our artwork be transformed by these new environments? Be part of new contexts? We aim to create a new dimension and invite others to do the same by photographing this postcard in their space or voice. And posting it on #breathinghouseart

Nowa Soda

A group residency project organized by Half-Slant in Krakow, Poland 2006

Conceived and curated by Halfslant, NOWA SODA: Solvay Transformed was a month long artist in residency culminating in a two-month long exhibition which transformed the Contemporary Art Center Solvay with four installations found throughout the building.

The four resident artists: Hagen Betzwieser (Germany), Ninar Esber (France/Lebanon), Tara Hughes (USA) and Luke Montgomery (UK) used the historical and present context as the framework of the building to create projects which enter into a direct dialogue with the space and the people that interact with it on a daily basis.

American artist Tara Hughes’ cement and steel sculptures, as well as her drawings, evoke the destroyed forms that were created during the demolition of the Krakow Soda works, yet also show the potential of the very same materials which make up the CACS-building for creating alternative forms. Tara worked with the children that participated in Art Workshops to create sculptures with cement, showing them that this everyday building material can have be repurposed. The cement sculptures were displayed on the stairs throughout the building and in the main gallery. Tara Hughes participation was made possible by a generous grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Bush Garden LightBox

A temporary installation project in collaboration with Half-Slant Brooklyn NY 2009

Bush Garden Lightbox, Brooklyn, USA Â May 2009
The Bush Garden Lightbox was conceived as a truly immersive experience. Against the intense skyline of Brooklyn, Halfslant  and artist Tara Hughes used three key found materials – an old spinnaker sail, three dozen animal x-rays and six spools of hot pink shoelace thread – to reimagine the roof top.
The installation encouraged and forced viewers to look up, out and through the space. X-rays, in motion with the winds, interacted with Brooklyn and the environment. The intense elemental nature of a roof top installation added an additional layer, where sunset, violent winds and downpours all drastically altered the aesthetic.