Alex Hodge

Portraits from the In Light of Her, Series. Carved Porcelain Wall Sculpture Set

2019

History Lesson: Power is Always Taken, 2014 Hand-built and carved porcelain vase 36 in x 22 in x 10 in ~30 lbs This vessel is one of the first from the series of pots Unsung Muses and prioritizes the narrative of Hatshepsut, as she was perhaps the most successful female pharaoh of Egypt. She brought prosperity and peace to Egypt through her work to improve infrastructure and trade routes. Her success was so great that her male successors attempted to erase her from history by literally chiseling her image off the walls and attempting to destroy all statues of her. By honoring her existence in this large vessel, I center the narrative of women’s power...

Reimagining the Divine as You 2014 Hand built and carved porcelain vase One of a kind This vessel is a part of the series Unsung Muses and references art historical imagery such as Botticelli’s Venus, the Minoan Snake Goddess...

Tribute to Astarte and Her Spirit of Tenacity, 2015 Hand-built and carved porcelain vase One of a kind This vessel is part of the Unsung Muses series, and it illustrates various ve...

Supporting perspective, 2019 Carved porcelain Measures: 11 1/2 × 7 1/2 × 1 in 29.2 × 19.1 × 2.5 cm and Curled girl, 2019 Carved porcelain 11 1/2 × 7 × 1/2 in 29.2 × 17.8 × 1.3 cm He...

Who washes the feet of Mary Magdalene? This piece recalls the art historical depictions of Mary Magdalene. Though she is often contextualized as the one who washed Jesus’s feet, Hod...

Olympia Porcelain and gold This piece recalls Manet’s painting of the same name. While Manet sought to confront the viewer with Olympia’s gaze, as she was a known sex worker...

The ceramic sculptures of SunKoo Yuh are composed of tight groupings of various forms including plants, animals, fish, and human figures. While Korean art, Buddhism, and Confucian be...

The ceramic sculptures of SunKoo Yuh are composed of tight groupings of various forms including plants, animals, fish, and human figures. While Korean art, Buddhism, and Confucian beliefs inform some aspects of his imagery, implied narratives that often suggest socio-political critiques largely drive his work. Yuh is currently Associate Professor at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA. The Rubin Center has exhibited two monumental columns...

The ceramic sculptures of SunKoo Yuh are composed of tight groupings of various forms including plants, animals, fish, and human figures. While Korean art, Buddhism, and Confucian be...

The ceramic sculptures of SunKoo Yuh are composed of tight groupings of various forms including plants, animals, fish, and human figures. While Korean art, Buddhism, and Confucian be...

The ceramic sculptures of SunKoo Yuh are composed of tight groupings of various forms including plants, animals, fish, and human figures. While Korean art, Buddhism, and Confucian be...

The ceramic sculptures of SunKoo Yuh are composed of tight groupings of various forms including plants, animals, fish, and human figures. While Korean art, Buddhism, and Confucian beliefs inform some aspects of his imagery, implied narratives that often suggest socio-political critiques largely drive his work. Yuh is currently Associate Professor at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA. The Rubin Center has exhibited two monumental columns that showcase Yuh’s mastery of his complex narratives and the ceramic medium. Yuh’s work is included in the collections of the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, The Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, among others. Honors and awards he has received include the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, the Grand Prize at the 2nd World Ceramic Biennale International Competition, Icheon, Korea, The Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize, and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. Selected Public Collections Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, Korea The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, NY The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA State Foundation on Culture & the Arts, Honolulu, HI Pacific Asian Museum, Pasadena, CA Honolulu Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Wright State University, Dayton, OH Kennedy Museum, Athens, OH Fuller Crafts Museum, Brockton, MA Museum of Art & Archeology, Columbia, MO Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA Macon Museum of Art & Science, Macon, GA Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Gimhae, Korea JINRO Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea Seoul Newspaper, Seoul, Korea "Year of the Monkey...