Kathy Hodge (American, b. 1956). "Signal", 2005. Medium: pastel on paper. Signed lower right. Dimensions: 16" x 22". Unframed. Hodge grew up in Providence and followed in her parents' footsteps by attending Rhode Island School of Design for painting. After two years at RISD, she enrolled in the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, MA from which she graduated in 1980 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Hodge created a series of drawings, pastels and oils in 2005 based upon her numerous train rides back and forth between Providence and NYC to visit museum exhibitions. This body of work was exhibited at Bert Gallery and received great critical reviews. "Signal" is one of the pastel works from that exhibit showing a visual collage of passing moments on the train. Hodge describes this train series. “From the train the world beyond the glass is curiously detached. While the tracks slip underneath the train at 80 mph, I sit still for hours. Short segments of a town's daily cycle — 8:16am New London, 9:08am New Haven, 9:31am Bridgeport — run concurrently with the long rhythmic pulse of the rails. While the land rushes by in a blur, I fixate on details and see what people have hidden out of sight, behind a fence, down a bank, in back of a shopping center, on a roof; machinery, trash, rusted skeletons of old railway equipment, wires and cables. Only the grafitti artists seem to realize that they can play to this audience, but I appreciate also the accidental artistry of obsolescence and utility.”

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16 x 22 in

0.3 lb