Zero Liability & Simple Comforts
gallery show by James Hughes and Corey Presha

James Hughes is a graphic designer and artist who lives in Brooklyn, New York. He will be graduating from The School of Visual Arts in May of 2009 with a BFA in graphic design.

He will be exhibiting Zero Liability, a part of his current ongoing project, in which he works with large scale pieces in the realm of obvious forms of signage. In order to tell the story of the less obvious or less talked about, with conceptualized typographic statements and messages. The work being exhibited are silkscreens on corrugated styrene board, which mimic construction site licensing signs. The signs are meant to engage the viewer/passer-by, by making light of displacement and gentrification that is currently going on in Brooklyn neighborhoods.
He will also be exhibiting some painting that deal with the same subject matter.

"Simple Comforts"

Corey Presha is a photographer based out of Rockland County, New York. He is the editor of Eyes of Artists - a blog dealing with contemporary photography and photographic practice - as well as the zine series Disposable which will have its inaugural release later this year.

He will be exhibiting work from his series Simple Comforts shot in rural Georgia in early 2008. The work is a portrait of his grandmother through the exploration of her community and surrounding areas. While visiting his grandmother in Georgia for the first time in twenty years, he was struck by the closeness of her small town and the people who resided in it. The photographs are engaging and friendly, letting the viewer into the lives of each person and environment. This was his first experience with small town America, a theme he continues to investigate in his work. Corey also runs the blog www.eyesofartist.wordpress.com; and you can view his work at www.coreypresha.net.

Both artists are childhood friends, and wish they got to see Fugazi.