Hearts and Minds integrates iconography often associated with popular culture, patriotism, the occult, and militarism to create a psycho-spiritual proposition for the viewer. Each 12” x 12” panel has been covered by collaging shredded American currency that has been sorted by color and pasted onto the surface.

Since 2007, Hughes has been working with shredded money as one of his primary materials as a means to explore ideas of labor, value, and worth. These highly crafted and meticulous works not only illustrate his painstaking process, but they also highlight the disparity between skilled labor and industry in the United States. By carefully reconstructing dollar bills previously removed from circulation and shredded by the government, Hughes reconstitutes a new set of values on the otherwise worthless strands of money.

Hughes’s ongoing series of limited edition print works titled Devil in the Details are created by digitally deconstructing various world currencies. Utilizing the fine details found in the filigree, text, and textures of money, he creates large-scale collages, transforming the compositions of the world’s currency into ornate geometric abstractions. The patterns Hughes creates have a multitude of cross-cultural reference points, ranging from Western Modernism to Islamic Art; Persian rugs to camouflage; transcendentalism to consumer culture. In so doing, Hughes examines the psychological capital of currency by transforming something so ubiquitous into a nearly unrecognizable abstraction of itself.

Hughes’s ongoing series of limited edition print works titled Devil in the Details are created by digitally deconstructing various world currencies. Utilizing the fine details found in the filigree, text, and textures of money, he creates large-scale collages, transforming the compositions of the world’s currency into ornate geometric abstractions. The patterns Hughes creates have a multitude of cross-cultural reference points, ranging from Western Modernism to Islamic Art; Persian rugs to camouflage; transcendentalism to consumer culture. In so doing, Hughes examines the psychological capital of currency by transforming something so ubiquitous into a nearly unrecognizable abstraction of itself.

A video and audio compilation culled together from found footage on the Internet. The video is from various media outlets and cell phone video shoot during Black Friday shopping frenzy. The overlaid audio is from various broadcast news outlets that were covering the 1992 Los Angeles riots at it unfolded.

Installation view: "Terms & Conditions" at Jordan Faye Contemporary in spring 2015.

Installation views of works from solo exhibition "Terms & Conditions" at Jordan Faye Contemporary.

New work made during a 2 month long artist residency in Budapest, Hungary Sept-Oct 2015.

Hughes’s ongoing series of limited edition print works titled Devil in the Details are created by digitally deconstructing various world currencies. Utilizing the fine details found in the filigree, text, and textures of money, he creates large-scale collages, transforming the compositions of the world’s currency into ornate geometric abstractions. The patterns Hughes creates have a multitude of cross-cultural reference points, ranging from Western Modernism to Islamic Art; Persian rugs to camouflage; transcendentalism to consumer culture. In so doing, Hughes examines the psychological capital of currency by transforming something so ubiquitous into a nearly unrecognizable abstraction of itself.

New work made during a 2 month long artist residency in Budapest, Hungary Sept-Oct 2015.

Hughes’s ongoing series of limited edition print works titled Devil in the Details are created by digitally deconstructing various world currencies. Utilizing the fine details found in the filigree, text, and textures of money, he creates large-scale collages, transforming the compositions of the world’s currency into ornate geometric abstractions. The patterns Hughes creates have a multitude of cross-cultural reference points, ranging from Western Modernism to Islamic Art; Persian rugs to camouflage; transcendentalism to consumer culture. In so doing, Hughes examines the psychological capital of currency by transforming something so ubiquitous into a nearly unrecognizable abstraction of itself.

New work made during a 2 month long artist residency in Budapest, Hungary Sept-Oct 2015.

Hughes’s ongoing series of limited edition print works titled Devil in the Details are created by digitally deconstructing various world currencies. Utilizing the fine details found in the filigree, text, and textures of money, he creates large-scale collages, transforming the compositions of the world’s currency into ornate geometric abstractions. The patterns Hughes creates have a multitude of cross-cultural reference points, ranging from Western Modernism to Islamic Art; Persian rugs to camouflage; transcendentalism to consumer culture. In so doing, Hughes examines the psychological capital of currency by transforming something so ubiquitous into a nearly unrecognizable abstraction of itself.