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27/1/2005

Two exhibitions

Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland MOCA, Cleveland

Jim Hodges - Hildur Asgeirsdottir Jonsson

Join us for MOCA Cleveland's Winter / Spring Opening Party on January 28th featuring two new exhibitions by Jim Hodges and Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson.

At 6:30pm, Jim Hodges will lead an informal discussion about his exhibiton in the galleries, followed by a wine tasting courtesy of Langdon Shiverick and complimentary hors d'oeuvres from Bossa Nova, OPA and The Old Angle. The evening's Latin-infused soundtrack will be provided by Detroit's John Beltran of Ubiquity Recordings.

Attend the Opening and receive FREE admission a complimentary beverage at the After Party, hosted at the B-Side Liquor Lounge in Coventry: 2785 Euclid Hts. Blvd. in Cleveland Hts. below The Grog Shop.

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Jim Hodges

With a focus on handmade and labor-intensive processes, Jim Hodges transforms ordinary, humble materials into poignant, lyrical works that transcend the everyday. Glass, fabric, mirrors, colored pencils, paint, paper and light bulbs are among the materials with which Hodges creates his mixed media works. Trained as a painter, he creates drawings, collages, sculptures and installations. In his art, Hodges combines a poetic sensibility with a handcraft aesthetic using cutting, sewing and reassembling techniques to bring out the latent beauty of manufactured materials.

At times spare and minimalist in form and verging on the abstract, Hodges' work is rich in associative meaning. Folding (into a greater world), 1998, a large mirrored mosaic composed of a myriad of cut and fractured glass shards, becomes a meditation on temporality, loss and transcendence. On We Go, 1996, a spider web sculpture meticulously woven from fine silver jewelry chains, explores the intricacy of relationships and suggests both fragility and strength, interdependence and entrapment, beauty and danger. Animated with color and light, the light bulb sculptures Ahhha, 2000 and Ultimate Joy, 2001, become celebrations of life and human relationships. Hodges' deeply personal, yet universal works are imbued with beauty, memory and longing. These are works in which the evanescent and the enduring coalesce.

This exhibition focuses on a selection of Hodges' works from the last ten years in which light is a primary component, one that the artist uses physically as a material and conceptually as a symbol. Light also permeates his mirror "paintings," Prismacolor drawings and delicate "spider web" chain sculptures, resonating throughout as a metaphor of time, ephemerality and illusion.

About Jim Hodges

Hailed by The Village Voice as one of the top choices in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, Jim Hodges is rapidly gaining recognition as a leading artist in the United States today. Since the early 1990s, his work has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions including those at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 2000, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Miami Art Museum in 1999, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1997 and the São Paulo Bienal in 1996. In 2005, a major one-person exhibition of Hodges’ work will take place at the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostello, Spain. Hodges received a BFA from Fort Wright College in Spokane, WA in 1980 and an MFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY in 1986.

The exhibition Jim Hodges is coordinated by curator Margo A. Crutchfield, Senior Curator, MOCA Cleveland.

Organized by the Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina, Greensboro and the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College.

The exhibition in Cleveland is generously sponsored by Toby Devan Lewis.

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Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson - Energy Forms

Interested in the geophysical powers that lie beneath an often calm exterior, Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson creates silk weavings, intricate embroideries and ink drawings that communicate the inherent energy of the natural world. Originally from Iceland, Jónsson references the glacial formations and expanses of sea and sky of her native landscape and explores cosmic activity.

For her large scale weavings, Jónsson's process begins with the unique translation of a photograph into a loose abstract sketch known as a cartoon. She places this image beneath sets of separately strung warp and weft threads and subsequently paints each surface with fabric dye and then weaves her artwork. This weaving method integrates the two individually painted components into one meticulously coordinated image. Jónsson also creates detailed embroideries and black-and-white ink drawings on vellum. These more intimately scaled works create a visual paradox by representing the vast and tumultuous chaos of her subject matter through labor-intensive compositions.

Geological forces such as subtle tectonic movements or more combustible, powerful phenomena, like earthquakes, are a constant in our world. Energy Forms calls attention to the physicality of the earth and our relationship with it.

The first weaver to be shown in the PULSE series, Jónsson has lived in Ohio for the last 20 years. She is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art and received an MFA from Kent State University. Jónsson’s drawing and weavings have been shown in Spain, France and Iceland and have been exhibited extensively throughout Ohio. Most recently, the Ohio Arts Council commissioned Jónsson to design the Governor’s Annual Awards in the Arts and her embroideries were presented to winners of the 2004 awards.

Curated by Ana Vejzovic, Assistant Curator.

Support for the PULSE: Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson: Energy Forms exhibition is generously provided by Hahn Loeser + Parks LLP and the Kulas Foundation. Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson has received additional grant support from The Ohio Arts Council

Image: Jim Hodges happy / sunrise-sunset ("in my beginning is my end" – T.S. Eliot), 2001 - prismacolor on paper. Private Collection

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