Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 2025 Art Auction | Hosted by Sotheby's

Jim Hodges

life invites the garden (for MCA Chicago)

Estimate

90,000 - 125,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jim Hodges

b. 1957

life invites the garden (for MCA Chicago)

Executed in 2025.

Acrylic and pastel with 24-karat gold on linen panel

24 1/4 x 18 1/8 in. (61.6 x 46 cm)

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Jim Hodges (b. 1957, Spokane, WA; lives in New York, NY) creates drawings, sculptures, and installations that consider loss, desire, and time. Often made from delicate materials such as metal chains, gold leaf, silk flowers, and glass, his intimate work conjures poetic moments found in the everyday. Hodges was the subject of a touring retrospective, Give More Than You Take, which traveled to the Dallas Museum of Art; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. A public work by Hodges was commissioned for AIDS Memorial Park, New York, in 2023, following a major installation at Grand Central Station, New York, in 2021. His work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Hodges has several works in the MCA Collection, and is represented in numerous other public collections.