Lucy Hodgson "Unnatural Disasters"
Soho20 Chelsea Gallery
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Hodgson’s natural/man-made hybrids are a biting commentary on today’s environmental plight. These new works focus on forms, which act as converters and receptors. Ambiguous geometric forms, masking the process that mysteriously converts tree forms into metal piping, or vice versa. Emerging and melding into the gallery space, these works, though playful and even humorous, hold a sinister reminder of what havoc humans have reeked on the natural world. Bamboozled features a ramshackle bamboo structure “bobbing” adrift mischievous oil slicks, a reference to the exploitation of the Middle Eastern oil industry. Using materials such as plywood, metal piping, tree limbs, rust and steel, Hodgson often exhibits the work outdoors, coaxing along the impermanence of these semi-natural works. Hodgson’s work has always maintained a sort of intellectual sucker-punch at the viewer. Always visually stunning and often 10 or more feet tall, her forms belie the fact that the work is a critique of the social and political tug-of-war on the natural world.
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Schedule
from May 03, 2011 to May 28, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-05-12 from 17:00 to 20:00