Robert Hodge “20ft Tall”
Arts + Leisure
[Image: Robert Hodge "Black Boy Fly" (2016) mixed media on reclaimed paper, 26.5 x 26.5 in. Framed]
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Arts+Leisure presents Robert Hodge’s first solo exhibition in New York, 20ft Tall. The works in this exhibition showcase Hodge’s innovative multi-media based practice, which starts with the artist scouring the streets of Houston and collecting discarded materials such as random papers, fliers, and billboards. He then fuses these materials together into multi-layered compositions, integrating imagery and phrases drawn from politics and twentieth century music into a highly corporeal and complexly layered formal framework.
The exhibition title is derived from a song of the same name by Erykah Badu, a song which, in the artist’s own words, is about “recognizing our potential and overcoming insecurities and obstacles if we could only realize how powerful and resilient we are.” In many ways, 20ft Tall is a celebration of this potential, and fragments of twentieth century African American culture, particularly relating to music, form the raw materials of the work.
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Schedule
from January 14, 2017 to February 19, 2017