The 2004-05 Sweet Briar College Galleries season continues on Friday, Jan. 14 in the Babcock Fine Arts Center Gallery with "The Strangeness of Zero," a digital art exhibit by New York artist Carter Hodgkin. Her work will be on display through Thursday, March 10, when a closing reception will be held at 4:30 p.m.
One of the first artists to work in digital processes, Hodgkin grapples with the relationship between nature and technology. Using reference materials from neuroscience and microbiology, her work reflects an invisible world that has emerged through scientific imaging.
Her most current work is informed by electron microscopy as well as bubble chamber photography. Images of neurons in the brain as well as the trajectories of split atomic particles are transformed into line and color. Combining dye, oil, enamel, and acrylic pigments on canvas, Hodgkin's paintings coalesce into microscopic or macroscopic symbolic languages.
A practicing artist for the past 20 years, Hodgkin has had one-person shows in New York; San Francisco; Cincinnati, Ohio; Tokyo; and New Delhi, India. Her work has been featured in group shows at museums and galleries in the U.S., Japan, India, and Europe.
She has received numerous grants including a 2002 Pollock/Krasner, a 1989 painting fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts, and a 1991 fellowship from Dieu Donne Papermill in New York. Her work has been reviewed in such publications as Artforum, Art in America, Arts Magazine, Bomb Magazine, Flash Art, and Art Press.
Critic Gerard McCarthy recently wrote, "Hodgkin successfully explores a phenomenological terrain in which scientific precision and artistic imagination help illuminate the mysterious workings of the brain."
In 1998 Hodgkin exhibited a brief survey of her work at Nature Morte Delhi and participated in the Khoj Art Residency outside New Delhi. In 1997 she created several digital murals for the ZKM Center for Art & Media in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Hodgkin received a B.F.A from Virginia Commonwealth University and pursued studies at the San Francisco Art Institute, New York University, and the School of Visual Arts in New York, where she resides.
