Jennifer Hughes is the artist behind Rae Press Studio, which is named after her mother. Jenny is printmaker who works predominantly in lithography, relief, and screenprinting, but also the media in between such as drawing, watercolors and artist books. Her work has mostly been about the body, exploring the physical space the body inhabits and the metaphorical space of the body.
Jenny grew up in the Bronx, NY. She received a BA from Wellesley College and an MFA from the University of Iowa. She has participated in artist residencies at the Center for Contemporary Art in Connecticut, the Lower East Side Print Shop in New York City and at Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been shown locally and abroad, notably at Bunker Hill Community College, the Towne Gallery at Wheelock College, The Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial, Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Tama Art University Museum in Japan, University of Osnabruck in Germany, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery in San Francisco, and Muskat Studios in Somerville MA. She has taught in various colleges and universities around the Boston area and is currently Chair of Visual Arts at Milton Academy.
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