Exhibition

Jim Hodges: You

March 2, 2019–April 30, 2019

Jim Hodges, You, 1997.
Jim Hodges, in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, You (detail), 1997. Silk flowers and thread. 216 x 192 inches. Collection of The Fabric Workshop and Museum. Photo credit: Carlos Avendaño.

Part of Jim Hodges’ series of large, sculptural floral veils, You is a lace-like cascade of petals and leaves created from deconstructed silk flowers, fragile yet powerfully seductive in its simplicity and beauty. The work was created in 1997 while Hodges was an Artist-in-Residence at The Fabric Workshop and Museum. Also on display in our first floor gallery is Hodges’ Artist Box, providing an inside look at his process and practice.

This installation of Jim Hodges’ work was shown in conjunction with the Philadelphia Flower Show—the nation’s largest and longest-running horticultural event—located across the street at the Philadelphia Convention Center and on view March 2-10, 2019.

Location

The Fabric Workshop and Museum First Floor

You

Artists in This Exhibition

About the Artist

American, born 1957. Lives in New York, NY. 

Jim Hodges is a sculptor and installation artist who has become known for work that is sometimes monumental in scale and made from silver chain, broken mirrors or flower petals—ephemeral materials that offer symbolic associations in addition to their aesthetic attributes. Born in Spokane, Washington, Hodges received his BFA from Fort Wright College in 1980 and his MFA from the Pratt Institute in 1986. His work can be found in numerous public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; the Detroit Institute of Arts, MI; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; and The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA. Hodges has exhibited across the United States and internationally in shows at the Aspen Art Museum, CO; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; and the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY. In 2013, the Dallas Museum of Art and the Walker Art Center co-organized Give More Than You Take, a retrospective of Hodges’ career that also traveled to the ICA Boston and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Alpert Award in the Arts, the Alpert Ucross Prize, and the Washington State Arts Commission.