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Jim Hodges [1956-0] American

Rank: 109
Politician, Artist

Jim Hodges is a New York-based installation artist.
Hodges, born October 16, 1957 in Spokane, Washington, received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Fort Wright College in 1980 and his Master of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY in 1986.

Art, Experience, Relationship

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Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.		101
When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.	Art	102
It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.	Relationship	103
For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?		104
I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.		105
There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make.		106
Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.		107
Color is an intense experience on its own.	Experience	108
As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.		109
When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.		110
I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.		111
I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.		112
My latest works are these things with light bulbs.		113
I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.		114
But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion.		115
However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.		116
I'm an average person.		117
I think that some works are more accessible than others.		118
I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.		119
Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.		120
I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.		121

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