The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 24, 2024

In Blue

In Blue

1996
(American, b. 1957)
Overall: 396 x 259 cm (155 7/8 x 101 15/16 in.)
© Jim Hodges
Location: not on view

Description

In his work, Jim Hodges reveals qualities of beauty and grace in the most unassuming materials. Through relatively simple acts of manipulation and reappraisal, he invests the man-made with a previously absent level of emotion and authenticity. In Blue is a diaphanous curtain of lush, tropical colors that is both imposing for its monumental scale and delicate in its fragility. Activated by the slightest breeze, its artificial elements ripple with the movement of natural life forms. To create In Blue, Hodges took apart hundreds of silk flowers, flattened and ironed each element, pinned the pieces together, and then carefully hand-sewed them into a scrim.
  • 2005
    Agnes Gund, New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2005–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 123
  • Imagining the Garden. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016).
    Floating a Boulder: Works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Jim Hodges. FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (organizer) (October 1, 2009-January 31, 2010).
    Landscape Confection. Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (Jan. 30 - April 27, 2005).
  • {{cite web|title=In Blue|url=false|author=Jim Hodges|year=1996|access-date=24 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2005.140