Howard Hodgkin
Howard Hodgkin was born in London in 1932, where he lives and works. He attended Camberwell School of Art and the Bath Academy of Art, Corsham.
In exploring the very nature of painting both as cultured language and sheer expression, Hodgkin disregards the classical polarities of abstraction and representation, past and present, canvas and frame. Assertive compressed gestures, sweeping complex textures, a lush palette, and the dynamic interchange of light and dark are all traits of his. Hodgkin's pictures include maximalist gestures and saturated colours with incorporated frames and painted wooden supports, they operate as both objects and images.
His work is displayed in many exhibitions and museums such as Major museum exhibitions include "Paintings 1975–1995," Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas (opened 1995 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, traveled to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, and Hayward Gallery, London in 1996); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, (2006, traveled to Tate Britain and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid); "Paintings: 1992–2007," Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (2007, traveled to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge); "Time and Place, 2001–2010," (Museum of Modern Art Oxford (2010, traveled to De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands, and San Diego Museum of Art, 2010–11); and “Howard Hodgkin,” Fondation Bemberg, Toulouse, France (2013).
In exploring the very nature of painting both as cultured language and sheer expression, Hodgkin disregards the classical polarities of abstraction and representation, past and present, canvas and frame. Assertive compressed gestures, sweeping complex textures, a lush palette, and the dynamic interchange of light and dark are all traits of his. Hodgkin's pictures include maximalist gestures and saturated colours with incorporated frames and painted wooden supports, they operate as both objects and images.
His work is displayed in many exhibitions and museums such as Major museum exhibitions include "Paintings 1975–1995," Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas (opened 1995 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, traveled to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, and Hayward Gallery, London in 1996); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, (2006, traveled to Tate Britain and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid); "Paintings: 1992–2007," Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (2007, traveled to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge); "Time and Place, 2001–2010," (Museum of Modern Art Oxford (2010, traveled to De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands, and San Diego Museum of Art, 2010–11); and “Howard Hodgkin,” Fondation Bemberg, Toulouse, France (2013).