Exhibit: Marie-Louise McHugh

Contemporary realism, as Marie-Louise McHugh practices it, rests on the belief that an image can tell a story with no words attached. She has spent much of her life moving among forms of visual expression and began as a collage artist and photographer, but oil painting is the medium she keeps coming back to. This exhibit of her work hangs in the Arts Advocates Gallery in the Crossings at Siesta Key mall. The same space holds the organization's collection of Sarasota Art Colony paintings and Florida Highwaymen canvases, so a working realist shares the walls with the region's mid-century painters.