Jim Hodges’ works hold a preponderance of inovation in the wide array of materials and processes that he engages. Often times such common-place materials as silk flowers or photographs are transformed by repetitive and thoughtful processes that lead to a poetic but accessible understanding of the more ephemeral moments of personal experience and the emotive powers imbedded in materials through memory and association.

“It fell to Hodges’ generation of sculptors, inspired in part by artists like Beuys, Schneeman and Nauman, to combine the formal structuring concerns of the 60’s generation, with the excavation of the narrative implications of varied materials.  A material like rubber could no longer be imported from the outside world “simply as a formal choice”: it remained saturated with all of the associations it had outside of the gallery, and those associations became fair game for the orchestrations of the artist. Consequently, the dense symbolism in Hodges’ work arises in two ways: through the piece’s imagery, and through its material associations.”

–Nayland Blake (excerpt from Theme from Mantrap 1991,1992)

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

Jim Hodges is also represented by Stephen Friedman Gallery, London