Hughie O’Donoghue. Time and The Architecture of Memory

February 27 – April 10, 2026

On view Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm by appointment.

447 Space is pleased to present painter Hughie O’Donoghue’s (b.1953) his first-ever solo exhibition in New York.

The artist will exhibit 10 works that span over four decades, with five large-scale and five smaller, showcasing his mastery of mixing figuration with abstraction to create emotionally intense, large-scale explorations of collective memory, personal history and myth.

Hughie O’Donoghue says: “The images in my paintings emerge from personal experience, memory and the process of painting itself - a series of actions and corrections which eventually resolve themselves. The paintings meditate on their themes, slowly coagulating into their ultimate form.”

Image: Detail of Cargo, Oil, mixed media on tarpaulin, 365 x 732 cm.