I dreamed a world and called it Love
November 11 — December 21, 2016
530 West 21st Street
Jim Hodges’ engagement with mirrored glass as a material originated in the mid 1990’s, with a single cracked panel mounted on raw canvas. So began a progression that has seen its employ through hand-cut mosaic series to milled camouflage motifs as stand-alone structural forms. An invested concentration in surface reflectivity as its own medium is present in much of Hodges’ work–glass, gold and polished stainless steel–and allows for multiple readings, broadening experiential possibilities and disrupting notions of a fixed site. I dreamed a world and called it Love. materializes simultaneously as a single panorama, made up of numerous individual monochromes as well as multi-colored patterned panels. Unprecedented in size, the installation offers an immersive inversion of the painting experience, along with an opportunity for reflection–literal and philosophical–in an exhilarating and undetermined environment.
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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.
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