Press Release
Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to present its fourth exhibition by multi-disciplinary American artist Jim Hodges. Here Hodges presents a new body of work consisting of sculpture, drawings and paintings. These works chart new directions for Hodges, building on his continuing rearranging of concepts of nature. Works are installed in both gallery spaces.

Hodges’ work has always revolved around ideas of time, loss, life and love. Using a wide array of materials, he is able to transform the simplest of gestures into poignant experiences for the viewer.

Our experience of the work is the defining feature of Hodges’ practice. He describes this as “The potential and fullness of experience, [the] limitlessness of things ... mind, body, colour, space, proximity, distance, memory, psyche, and spirit”.

This exhibition follows Hodges’ recent retrospective that toured Dallas Museum of Art; Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

In 2014 a text-based sculpture With Liberty and Justice For All was installed on the exterior of the new building at Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA. Other major solo exhibitions include ‘New Work’, Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, USA (2010); ‘Love et cetera’, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2009); toured to the Camden Art Centre, London, England and Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, Italy; ‘You Will See Things’, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA (2009) and ‘Jim Hodges: This line to you’, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostello, Spain (2005).

Notable group exhibitions include; Immersed, Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, USA (2015 - 2016); 20 Years / 20 Shows: Fall 2015, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (2015 - 2016); Space Between, Flag Art Foundation, New York, USA (2015); Room by Room: Monographic Presentations from the Faulconer and Rachofsky Collections, The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas, USA (2014); Something about a Tree, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA (2013); Over, Under, Next, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA (2013); Shock of the News, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA (2012-2013); Contemporary Collection, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2011); I Am Still Alive: Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (2011).

Hodges’s works are included in prominent collections internationally, including The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; The Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; The Whitney Museum, New York; The Miami Art Museum, Florida; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Musée National, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.

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About the Artist

Jim Hodges was born in 1957 in Spokane, Washington, USA. He now lives and works in New York, USA.

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Stephen Friedman Gallery was established in 1995 and is now recognised amongst the leading international galleries in the field of contemporary art. The gallery represents both established and emerging artists from all over the world as well as the Estates for four historical artists.

Since its inauguration, the gallery has been based on Old Burlington Street in central London. In 2005 it expanded, taking on adjacent premises designed by Caruso St John and in 2011 an additional gallery space was opened at No. 11 Old Burlington St designed by David Kohn. The gallery hosts seven exhibitions each year and concurrently a project-based programme in the second gallery. One person exhibitions and curated, group exhibitions are featured in the programme and have included the first exhibitions in the UK by leading artists such as; Mamma Andersson, Jim Hodges, William Kentridge, Beatriz Milhazes, Yoshitomo Nara, Rivane Neuenschwander, Mira Schendel, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Jiro Takamatsu and Kara Walker. In generous private rooms and office spaces additional works can be viewed by appointment. There is also a facility to display art in a beautifully landscaped private garden.

Stephen Friedman Gallery represents artists from Great Britain and from five regions worldwide including Europe, North America, South America, Africa and Asia.
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