Robert Hodgins
In the Red Saloon
About this Item
signed, dated, inscribed with the title, medium and 'begun May 22 2001' on the reverse
Provenance
Goodman Gallery.
Private Collection.
One of Hodgin’s few laments is that the finished product encountered by viewers at exhibition cannot fully convey the process through which it was achieved, and it is the process – not the product – for which he lives… It is the non-linear manifestation of a painting that emerges, like structuralism’s notion of a sentence, in the specific meanings it selects and pulls from a universe of possible signification. And so it is that, at any one time, his studio is full of ‘pictures’ in various stages of completion. Some are finished in a sudden moment of insight. Some remain as a line, a colour field and a squiggle for years.
- Brenda Atkinson
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