No Dust

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JIM HODGES (B. 1957)
No Dust
signed, titled and dated 'Jim Hodges NO DUST 1996' (on the reverse)
mirror on canvas
28 x 22 in. (71.1 x 55.9 cm.)
Executed in 1996.

Provenance

Private collection, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Dallas Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art and Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Jim Hodges: Give More Than You Take, October 2013-January 2015, pp. 48-49, 52 and 236, no. 45 (illustrated).

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During a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Jim Hodges conceived the idea of breaking a mirror upon returning to his studio. The resulting work, No Dust (1996), became the first of his broken-mirror works, inaugurating an increasingly nuanced exploration of the medium. This pivotal development exemplified Hodges’s approach to artistic creation through the deconstruction and reconsideration of familiar materials, revealing new possibilities through their transformation.

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