Ceremony
November 14 — December 20, 2024
Opening Reception: Opening Reception: November 14, 6–8pm
New York: 24th Street
Gladstone Gallery is pleased to announce Ceremony, an exhibition of new work by Jim Hodges. Known for a cross-disciplinary practice that includes painting, sculpture, drawing and collaborative performance, Hodges’ distinctive visual language explores how shared spaces and familiar objects accumulate and radiate universal meaning. Simultaneously expressive of nature and the body, the political and the personal, Hodges’ work ponders the transcendent quality of those moments when the ephemeral coincides with the infinite. Drawing inspiration from the multitude of experiences accommodated by the concept of the ceremony, this exhibition examines how memory, time, and trace are inscribed upon the communal spaces we pass through.
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About
Photo by Tim Hailand
Jim Hodges (b.1957, Spokane, Washington) lives and works in New York. Hodges received his BFA from Fort Wright College in 1980, and his MFA from Pratt Institute in 1986. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at institutions including the Centre Georges Pompidou, Camden Art Centre, Aspen Art Museum, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. In 2023, Hodges’ sculpture Craig’s Closet was commissioned for the New York City AIDS Memorial Park. Hodges’ I dreamed a world and called it Love (2021), a large-scale installation commissioned by the MTA, is permanently installed in New York’s Grand Central Station. Hodges has received multiple awards and grants including the Association International des Critiques d’art, Albert Ucross Prize, Washington State Arts Commission, and Penny McCall Foundation Grant.
