until Saturday January 17 2015
Hammer Museum
T : +1 310 443 7000
10899 Wilshire Blvd
90024 Los Angeles
United States
A major traveling exhibition and the first comprehensive survey to be organized in the United States on the work of contemporary American artist Jim Hodgeswill premiere in Dallas.Co-organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and the Walker Art Center, the exhibition explores the trajectory of the artist's 25-year career, highlighting the major themes that unify his multilayered and varied practice.
The exhibition includes over 80 works in all media made between 1987 and 2013, including works never before seen in the United States, as well as a major new work created especially for this exhibition. Jim Hodges: Give More Than You Take examines how Hodges transforms both everyday and precious materials into poignant meditations on themes including time, loss, identity, and love. The exhibition brings together photography, drawing, works on paper, and objects to examine and illuminate Hodges' command of material and gesture.
