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Jim
Hodges
New
Work
June
3July 31,
2010
Opening
reception Thursday, June 3, 2010 from
68
Gallery
hours:
TuesdayFriday,
106
Saturday,
noon6
Dieu Donné announces the opening of an exhibition of new works in
handmade paper by artist Jim Hodges, beginning Thursday, June 3, 2010 and
running through Saturday, July 31, 2010. The opening reception will take place
on Thursday, June 3, 2010 from 68 pm and the artist will be
present.
Hodges is widely known for investigations into the materiality of his
arthis own exploration and conceptual use of a chosen media, both
everyday and exotic. In this exhibition, the artist continues his investigation
of a familiar medium that has often captured his attentionpaper.
[UTF-8?]Hodgesâs return to Dieu Donné is his first since his 2002 Lab
Grant residency, which was the [UTF-8?]artistâs introduction to hand
papermaking, during which he created drawings from richly colored paper
pulp.
In this new body of unique works, Hodges exploits the material qualities of
paper through sculpture. By cutting, folding, and at times working into the wet
stages of the papermaking process, Hodges exposes the luxe organic elements of
paper. In Creep, 2009, the artist creates a branch-like form projecting
from the right side of a seductively watermarked sheet of paper. The composition
of the work presents a life size frame revealing a limbed figure of nature,
possibly seen as an anthropomorphized form beginning to
grow.
In Pulp, 2010 thickly cast paper chains hang from flesh-toned patches
(incorporating mineral based make-up) on a wood grain surface. The work presents
oppositional forces. Loosely hung chains suggest containment and restraint while
simultaneously, a background of dark, rich, veined paper references a living
form. [UTF-8?]Manâs relationship to nature compels the artist to inform these
materials with a powerful corporeal
effect.
About the artist: Jim Hodges (b. 1957, Spokane, Washington) lives and
works in New York City. This exhibition at Dieu Donné follows the
[UTF-8?]artistâs October 2009 solo exhibition [UTF-8?]âLove, [UTF-8?]Etc,â
at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which traveled to the Fondazione Bevilacqua in
Venice, and will be at the Camden Arts Center in London in June of 2010. The
artist is represented by Barbara Gladstone Gallery, who presented his recent
work in Brussels in March 2010. Hodges work is featured in permanent collections
of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art
(MoMA), New York; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington,
D.C. and the Tate in London, among
others.
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Top:
Creep (detail), 2009, handmade paper with beva adhesive. 60.25 × 40.125 ×
7.5 inches. Bottom: Pulp (detail), 2010, handmade paper and cast
paper. 60 × 40 × 5 inches. Photos by Tim
Hailand.
The
artistic and educational programs at Dieu Donné are made possible with public
funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; and the New
York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council;
and foundation support including: Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Cowles
Family Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, te Dedalus Foundation,
Inc., Mary Biddle Duke Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, Agnes Gund and
Daniel Shapiro, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Joan K. Davidson (The J.M.
Kaplan Fund), the Lauder Foundation, Kathy and Richard S. Fuld, Jr., the
Northern Piedmont Community Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the
Visual Arts, StratREAL Foundation US, the Daniel M. Neidich and Brooke Garber
Foundation, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc., the Marden Family
Foundation, Inc., the Renaissance Charitable Foundation (The Dresner Sadaka
Family Fund), the New York Community Trust, Cashin Family Fund, Hurst Family
Foundation, The Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation, Inc., and individual
donors.
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