Jim Hodges - Contemporary Art Evening Sale New York Friday, March 4, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

  • Catalogue Essay

    I had been playing around with silk flowers in my studio – taking them apart, pinning them on walls, making drawings with them…I had this idea of returning the flowers back to fabric.  I was interested in the history of each petal.  How the material had been transformed; cut, painted, sculpted, and given a flower identity.
     
    -Jim Hodges
     
    (I. Berry, “You Ornament the Earth, A Dialogue with Jim Hodges,” Jim Hodges, Germany, 2003, p. 13)
     
    Rooted in painting, Jim Hodges has expanded and evolved his artistic practice to include highly complex and intricate transformations of objects. Through the utilization of silk scarves, fractured mirrors, found objects, silver chains and perhaps his most recognizable choice of media, fabric flowers, Hodges has created site-specific installations and sculptural works that have come to define his unique and delicate work.
    Exposing the innate transience and beauty of ephemeral objects, Hodges work reflects on the passage of time, compelling his audience to contemplate their own experiences of impermanence.

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Once Together / Apart

1996
Silk, plastic, wire and pins (in 66 parts).
35 x 40 in. (88.9 x 101.6 cm).

Estimate
$350,000 - 450,000 

Contemporary Art Evening Sale

4 March 2011
New York