JIM HODGES
Frieze LA | Booth C5
26 February - 1 March 2026
Anthony Meier is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new artworks by Jim Hodges (b.1957; Spokane, Washington). Known for his poetic use of substance and form, Hodges frequently works with a range of materials and techniques to create installations and mixed-media compositions that probe the nature of experience.
Hodges is acclaimed for his poetic transformation of material into metaphor. Working between New York and Milan, Hodges continues exploring beauty, fragility, and impermanence through a new series of wall-based works made from richly colored velvet sourced from historic Italian mills, some of which still operate on 500-year-old looms. In these works, Hodges cuts, sews, and drapes velvet onto canvas, then paints across the surface with gold leaf, Japanese silver, and other materials. The resulting compositions are both painterly and sculptural, with surfaces that change with light and perspective. Velvet becomes both subject and support; an active participant in the work’s play of texture, depth, and reflection. These works draw from the duality of Renaissance opulence and the tactile intimacy of everyday textiles, blending historic craftsmanship with modern gesture. Each piece evolves through process: a dialogue between precision and chance, tension and release. Revisiting enduring themes in his practice—nature, transience, devotion—Hodges treats each work as a kind of puzzle, a universe of folds and drapery that invites improvisation, contemplation, and embodied response.
Alive with movement and color, these velvet works continue Hodges’s long-standing meditation on material as a pathway for emotion and experience, transforming surface into sensation and making it an act of presence.
