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Monroe HodderLarge Abstract Expressionist Colorful Painting Monroe Hodder Slow Dancing2014
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Monroe Hodder, American, b. 1953
Slow Dancing, 2014
Oil on canvas
Signed, titled, and dated verso
Provenance: Purchased in 2014 from Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis.
Abstract composition centering a hexagonal form. Unframed.
Monroe Hodder earned her MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. She was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome on five occasions and in 2019 was a Resident Artist at the Baer Art Center in Iceland. She exhibits worldwide and her work is in nine museum collections. Monroe Hodder is an abstract oil and acrylic painter whose layered works juxtapose geometric forms with expressionist fields of color. She began to paint while living in California and received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. For ten years, she was on the art faculty of several colleges and universities in the Bay Area, curated exhibitions, was an art critic for West Coast publications, and was represented by several galleries in San Francisco. Her experience of working as assistant to the Mexican artist, Manuel Neri, at the San Francisco Art Institute brought her into contact with Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko. Through her involvement with Neri came an affiliation with the Bay Area Figurative School in California, including such artists as Richard Diebenkorn and Elma Bischoff. Monroe and her husband Fred have lived in San Francisco for twenty years, travelling a great deal.
She has lived and worked overseas in Russia and England and has been a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome on five occasions.
She has also had residencies in Iceland and Nantucket. She was granted a UK Artist Resident Visa followed by British citizenship in 2005. She has exhibited her paintings widely in the US and internationally, including Italy, Korea, France and the UK.
She moved from London to New York in 2012 and has recently had solo exhibitions in galleries and art centers in Chelsea and the Lower East Side, New York, as well as London, Denver, Los Angeles, St. Louis and Portland, Or. Her work has been published in several art books and magazines and she was interviewed on PBS TV.
Close to fifty reviews have been written about her work and she is in numerous corporate and private collections. Eight paintings by Hodder are held in museum collections. She is represented by Havu Gallery in Denver, CO, Belgravia Gallery in England, Butters Gallery in Portland, OR and the Oehmen Print Center in Steamboat, CO.
She is represented by David Richard Gallery in New York, NY.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Physical Show, Big Paintings In Books, David Richard Gallery, New York, NY
2020
Virtual Show, Basement Paintings, David Richard Gallery, New York, NY
Virtual Show, November Show of Paintings, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
Virtual Show, September Show of Paintings, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
2019
Women in Abstraction, William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO
2018
The Future is Liquid Space Gallery, Denver, CO
Wilderness Paintings, Belgravia Gallery, Marylands, Ewhurst, Surrey, UK
2017
Future Sky, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
2016
Continuing the Dialogue, Space Gallery, Denver, CO
Roadside Mystics, Video-Painting Event, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
Video-Painting-Photography Exhibition, Chinatown Soup, LES, New York, NY
2015
Opera, Belgravia Gallery, Mayfair London, UK
Smoke and Mirrors, William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO
New Paintings, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2014
Asteroid Enigmas, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
Paintings, Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
New Paintings, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2013
Polyphonia, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Head Banging on the Moon, Andre Zarre Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY
Romancing Color, William Havu Galley, Denver, CO
2012
The Incidence of the Black Swan, Belgravia Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK
Recent Paintings, Arvada Arts Center, Denver, CO
2011
Gangstas and Cupcakes, Andre Zarre Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY
Hybrid Fictions, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
New Paintings, Belgravia Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK
Paint Up, K Saari Gallery, Steamboat Springs, CO
The Incidental and the Infinite, William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO
2010
Recent Paintings, Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Paintings, Darnell Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
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Jason McCoy Drawing Challenge, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
Lost And Found, NY Artists Circle, New York, NY
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USPS Art Project, Art Gym, Denver, CO
Women Painters, Hopper House and Museum, Nyack, NY
October Exhibition, Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY
Photo exhibition, Michael Warren Gallery, Denver, CO
Exhibition of Collectors, LSU Museum, Baton Rouge, LA
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Colorado Abstract, Arvada Center, Denver Colorado
San Jose Art Institute, San Jose, CA
Boulder Art Museum, Boulder, CO
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Informed, Space Gallery, Denver, CO
Kirkland Museum, Opening Exhibition, Denver, CO
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Color: From Primary to Tertiary, curated by Lily Wei, Site Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
SJICA, Exhibition and Auction, San Jose, CA
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Paintings at Chinthurst Hill, Surrey, UK
Women in Abstraction, Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO
Architectural Digest Art Show, Pier 94, New York, NY
Monotypes from Oehme Graphics, Space Gallery, Denver, CO
Monotype Show, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
Best of Colorado, Arvada Arts Center, Denver, CO
About Color, Denver University Gallery, Denver, CO
2015
Miami Basel, Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, FL
Chester Arts Fair, Chester, UK
Art Show Busan, Busan, Korea
Cloud Trousers, Russian Consulate, NYC, and Russian Embassy, Washington, WA
2014
Monotype Exhibition, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
SJICA, San Jose, CA
E/AB Art Fair, Oehme Graphics, New York, NY
Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, FL
2013
Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, FL
Introducing New Artists, Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Abstraction, Belgravia Gallery, London, UK
Twenty Women Artists, William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO
Aqua, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
E/AB Art Fair, Oehme Graphics, New York, NY
2011
Contemporary Paintings, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Earth and Fire, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Hong Kong Fine Art Fair, Belgravia Gallery, Hong Kong
OTHER EVENTS
- Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, 2018
- Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, 1995-6, 1999-00, 2010, 2014-2015
- Paintings exhibited online at Artsy, ArtNet, Saatchi Gallery, ArtSlant
- Paintings published in book, Colorado Abstract, 2009
- Film of Paintings by Monroe Hodder, filmed by Jerry Chater
and music by Joby Talbot, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK, 2002 and 2005
- TV Interview Show, 15 Minute interview on Art News, PBS Maryland, 2003
- Artist Resident Visa granted by the British Government, 1996-2005,
followed by grant of UK Citizenship
EDUCATION
MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1980-83
Instructors included Elizabeth Murray, Jay DeFeo, Manuel Neri, and Bob Colescott
Teaching Assistant for Manuel Neri
MBA, Stanford University, Stanford, CA,
BA, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, BA
- Creator:Monroe Hodder (American)
- Creation Year:2014
- Dimensions:Height: 40 in (101.6 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
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- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU38211207112
Monroe Hodder
Monroe Hodder Biography Monroe is a seasoned abstract painter whose layered works juxtapose geometric forms with expressionist fields of color. She had a solo exhibition in 2021 of new work at the David Richard Gallery in New York City. • Received an MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute, 1983. • Works in various paint mediums including oil, acrylic, watercolor, printmaking and pastel. • Her current Gallery representation: Tabla Rasa Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, David Richard Gallery in New York City
Belgravia Gallery in England
William Havu Galley in Denver, CO, Butters Gallery in Portland, OR
Oehme Print Center in CO. • More than 100 of her paintings are in corporate and private collections, including Tom Cruise, Isabel Sawhill, Bank of America, Panzio Art Center, Denver, CO, Gulfco, Denver, CO, and Brown and Tedstrom, Denver, CO • Over 50 reviews have been written about her work.
• • Her paintings are in eight museum collections, including the Denver Museum of Art, the Kirkland Museum, the Portland Art Museum and the San Jose Museum of Art • Work in various art books and magazines including Colorado Abstract,
curated and written by Michael Paglia and Mary Voelz Chandler. • Residencies: American Academy in Rome on five occasions; Baer Art Center, Iceland; Nantucket Art Center; other residencies. • Awarded UK Artist Resident Visa, followed by UK citizenship in 2005. • Numerous international exhibitions and Art Fairs, including Italy, Korea, France, Kazakhstan, UK Art Fairs, Miami Basel. • Was on the art faculty of several colleges and universities in the Bay Area
Art critic for several West Coast publications.
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