Jobe Gemmell-Hughes (b. 2002, Boston, Ma) is a Chicago based artist and poet whose primary field of concern is the intersection of language, form, abstraction, and their roles in helping us to make sense of the subjectivities of human consciousness. His paintings are rich with art and literary historical allusion, at times balancing on the precipice of direct reference, yet always holding the edge as not to insist what the viewer must see. His works act as elegies to the experience of their own making, the finished work expressing itself as a series of adaptations, negations, and revisions relative to the forms of thinking and feeling of the artist at one moment or another. Gemmell-Hughes believes that both the process of making and seeing art is a means by which we are able to contend with the incompleteness and contradictions of our own experience and, therefore, he hopes his work can speak to people’s own efforts to be made more whole. Gemmell-Hughes will complete his BFA in the spring of 2026. Group Shows: “Unmoored Cantilever” at Positive Space, Chicago, 2025. Solo shows: “Ruined Window” at Tinker Tailors, 2025.
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Jobe Gemmell-Hughes 