Terra, Aqua, Astra

MASH Gallery is pleased to present Terra, Aqua, Astra, an exhibition of forty new paintings by Maggi Hodge. It is her third solo presentation at the gallery. Both previous solo exhibitions sold out.

Her canvases hold emotion, memory and intuition in their most direct form, carried by color and gesture alone. Her work belongs to the tradition of non-objective abstraction, where color and form speak for themselves and meet the viewer directly. What reaches the canvas comes from consciousness itself: feeling that surfaces before it can be named, finding its shape in the act of making.

The results are vivid and unpredictable. Blocks of violet and cobalt tumble across grounds of ochre and black. Clusters of saturated dots gather and disperse. Scratched lines and loose grids rise through layered surfaces, guided by an instinct sharpened over years of practice. Some canvases glow in jewel tones. Others settle into smoky, muted registers of deep green and tarnished gold. Many hold several moods at once.

Each painting follows its own logic, and the exhibition moves freely from one to the next. What unites the body of work is the artist’s hand: a recognizable pressure, rhythm and nerve that carries from canvas to canvas. As with Joan Mitchell, whose abstractions were charged with remembered feeling, the emotion here is structural. It lives in how the paint is pushed, layered and interrupted.

The paintings reward long looking. They are chaotic and meditative at once. A first glance registers energy and color. A second finds a buried shape, a small scratched mark, a passage where one color breaks through another. The work keeps opening, as though the artist were drawing the viewer into a search through her own experience, one discovery at a time.

“Maggi’s paintings are deeply human,” says Haleh Mashian, founder and curator of MASH Gallery. “They enact emotion in real time. Every time you return to them, they reveal something new, because they are always in motion.”

Terra, Aqua, Astra continues MASH Gallery’s commitment to artists whose practice is rooted in sincerity and direct experience. The exhibition is on view from November 7 to December 19, 2026. Works are available for acquisition.