Reggie Burrows Hodges: Hawkeye
Reggie Burrows Hodges: Hawkeye by Jennifer King is a fully illustrated volume published by the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in 2023. This 64-page book explores the intricate relationship between memory and surveillance through the lens of the acclaimed Maine-based artist Reggie Burrows Hodges. The work features atmospheric memory paintings that draw on scenes from Hodges’ childhood in 1970s Compton, California, showcasing his unique painterly strategy that captures movement and emotion.
Readers will find a rich exploration of Hodges’ artistic techniques, including his use of negative space to convey movement and the emotional weight of personal memory. The book presents a visual grammar of tiled floors, wallpaper, and sports uniforms, all rendered with a delicate touch that evokes a sense of nostalgia. Through this examination, Hodges creates profound emotional collisions that resonate throughout his work, making this edition a significant contribution to the fields of arts and photography, individual artists, and art criticism.
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Modalities of memory and surveillance intertwine in the work of an acclaimed Maine painter
A tennis ball, warped by the speed of impact, is captured right before it lands on the painted boundary of the court, its oblong shape conveyed through negative space–a window into the black ground with which Maine-based American artist Reggie Burrows Hodges (born 1965) treats his canvases. This is movement as observed by a hawkeye, a painterly strategy particular to his paintings.
Hodges’ atmospheric memory paintings feature scenes sourced from his childhood in 1970s Compton, California. In this fully illustrated volume, Hodges constructs a grammar of tiled floors, wallpaper, tennis courts, patterned robes and sports uniforms. With a delicate touch, he captures glimpses of the past and renders them hazy and indistinct, laden with the tension of personal memory. Guided by this painterly approach, Hodges creates gentle and profound emotional collisions that ripple throughout his work.
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