OVERLOAD: A SOLO EXHIBITION BY MAGGI HODGE
Overload
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Maggi HodgeAmound UsAcrylic on Canvas60" x 36"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist -
Maggi HodgePulseAcrylic on Canvas36" x 36"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeProceleusmaticAcrylic on Canvas72" x 48"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeAllureAcrylic on Canvas48" x 48"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeHaplessAcrylic on Canvas40" x 30"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeAokigaharaAcrylic on Canvas30" x 40"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeBrimmingAcrylic on Canvas30" x 40"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeAssemblageAcrylic on Canvas60" x 36"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeSweetsAcrylic on Canvas36" x 24"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeMettleAcrylic on Canvas18" x 24"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeStill StandingAcrylic on Canvas18" x 24"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeGildedAcrylic on Canvas20" x 24"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeMystiqueAcrylic on Canvas24" x 30"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeScoreAcrylic on Canvas12" x 30"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeMechanizedAcrylic on Canvas30" x 40"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeVesselAcrylic on Canvas24" x 36"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeUnfastenedAcrylic on Canvas72" x 48"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeTracksAcrylic on Canvas72" x 60"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeIntimidationAcrylic on Canvas72" x 60"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeImpendingAcrylic on Canvas72" x 60"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeMeleeAcrylic on Canvas72" x 60"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeBlue X, 2021Acrylic on Canvas36" x 48"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeCirculating, 2021Acrylic on Canvas36" x 48"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeDawning, 2021Acrylic on Canvas36" x 60"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeForce, 2021Acrylic on Canvas60" x 48"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeIgnition, 2021Acrylic on Canvas48" x 60"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeRaw, 2021Acrylic on Canvas48" x 48"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeRocket, 2021Acrylic on Canvas36" x 48"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeVeil, 2021Acrylic on Canvas36" x 48"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeJunction, 2021Acrylic on Canvas36" x 48"Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
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Maggi HodgeVoltaAcrylic on Canvas38 x 48 in.Courtesy of Mash GalleryCopyright The Artist
Celebrated Los Angeles abstractionist, Maggi Hodge, kicks off 2021 with a brand new solo exhibition at MASH Gallery in March.
In her current series of work, the always bold, expressionist painter, Maggi Hodge grapples with our current state of living in inundation: our modern lives are overloaded with physical and psychological detritus that threatens to overwhelm and overburden us with unnecessary chatter and matter. With her generous employment of color and a primitivist aesthetic, Hodge’s remedy is to create within her canvases both elements of frenetic movement of emotion intertwined with moments of release and calm. Hodge’s message is that we not only can find our own way to calm—but to fight for its necessity.
Hodges’ artistic composition, use of symbolism and flipping of the positive and negative space in her work depict an overflow of feeling, thought and reaction to existential forces beyond our control. The array of hues, recurring shapes and tonal shifts in her work suggest chaos at play, but Hodge always has a larger purpose in mind. Hodge’s work aims to transcend and liberate us from being subsumed in a deluge of our own making.
Her work has always been suggestive rather than prescriptive. Hodge calls attention to the created boundaries of our daily existence: technological engulfment, stubborn patriarchy, media bombardment, and the hum of constant underlying social stress so that we can transcend all the cacophony to a much-needed state of nourishing calm. Hodge, a practitioner of meditation, encourages us to find serene shores of solace that are within our grasp.
Hodge’s first solo show, Women, Chaos & X, at MASH Gallery in the fall of 2019 was an overnight sensation—culminating in a completely sold-out experience for Hodge. Curator and founder of MASH Gallery, Haleh Mashian, subsequently exhibited new work of Hodges the following spring at the W Hotel in downtown LA at the show, À Gogo, which also resulted in a complete sold-out sweep of Hodge’s canvases.
In Overload, Hodge has temporarily departed from the figurative, but her signature use of vivid colors and the studied, loose brushstrokes that define her aesthetic are sure to generate commotion for this first-of-the-year exhibition.
