Happy Wednesday, art lovers! We enjoyed a visit from Agora artist Biddy Hodgkinson this afternoon. Biddy just walked down to Chelsea after visiting the Guggenheim – for those of you who aren’t familiar with NYC geography, that’s 40 street blocks and 5 avenues – QUITE the walk!
Biddy Hodgkinson between two of her works on display in Pathway to Abstraction.
At the Guggenheim, Biddy had been enjoying the exhibition of V. S. Gaitonde, an artist with a style not too dissimilar to her own. In fact, the title of the exhibition, Painting as Process, Painting as Life, may easily be applied to Biddy’s work, as her subjects deal with such themes as life, nature, and decay. In her pieces, she applies acids and industrial destructive substances to organic matter, allowing natural processes to occur on canvas. The result is a beautiful and colorful homage to death.
Biddy is currently working on two large-scale pieces with a pretty funny story behind them. When calling up her supplier, Hodgkinson requested two 80″ canvases – or, as it turned out, 280″ canvases, as the supplier would hear it! Not complaining, Biddy is going to go with it, and we’re pretty excited to see her new 23+ foot (7+ meter) works!
