Steve Turner is pleased to present Don’t Cry Because It Happened, Smile Because It’s Over, a solo exhibition by London-based Ariane Hughes that features a series of paintings that relate to emotional upheaval and the path to personal empowerment. Hughes uses her prodigious painting skills to depict hyper-real images that are at once absurd, menacing and humorous as well as sexy and grotesque. Inspired by experience and close observation, they more broadly relate to the selfie generation where personal relationships often commence on one’s iphone yet end in tears. Ariane Hughes graduated from Camberwell College (2019), had a solo exhibition at GNYP, Berlin (2022) and has had work in numerous group exhibitions since 2019, most recently at Guts Gallery, London (2023). This is Hughes’ first solo exhibition with Steve Turner. ____ Steve Turner is delighted to present Illuminations, a group exhibition curated by Natalia Gonzalez Martin that features works by ten artists from Britain and Spain who make works inspired by Medieval or Renaissance art. The following text was written by Gonzalez Martin expressly for Illuminations. ____ Steve Turner is pleased to present New Glow, New York-based Tiger Rocha’s debut solo exhibition. The exhibition features glowing portraits that blur human and animal characteristics, enabling Rocha to convey his feelings as a biracial and queer person. Inflated eyes, protruding horns, and other animalistic features transform portraits of himself and his partner into hybrid creatures. In doing so, he emphasizes his feelings of otherness while contemplating primal instincts and desires. New Glow encapsulates Rocha’s realization that otherness allows for a more potent and powerful existence. Tiger Rocha (b. 1998, Pleasanton, California) earned a BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design (2021) before moving to New York where he now lives. His work was included in a two-person exhibition alongside Drew Dodge at 1969 Gallery, New York (2023) and in group exhibitions at Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2022) and Untitled, Miami Beach with Steve Turner (2022). His work will next be featured in a two-person booth alongside Drew Dodge at KIAF, Seoul in September 2023.