Hodge’s work engages with process-based approaches to painting associated with abstraction together with illusionistic and perceptual painting techniques. Beginning with collages made from paper, tape and drafting film, Hodge employs complex methods and processes to create paintings that give illusory impressions of simple and seemingly provisional materials.
Hodge has taken found images of sculptures as the starting point for a collage. Cutting out the sculptures from the photographs and replacing them with painted abstract gestures on paper, these two dimensional collages embody the sculpture’s cast shadows and surrounding space.
In the new large-scale paintings the cut and layered collaged material and their resulting cast shadows are re-imagined in paint.
Sullivan+Strumpf
19 August to 6 September, 2014
Sydney
Weather Patterns, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 228.6cm x 198cm
Courtesy the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
