Carter Hodgkin
Carter Hodgkin
Workspace Program Resident 1991
In the “Gaussian Blur” series, Carter Hodgkin incorporates electron-micrograph pictures of human tissue digitized and abstracted on a computer, and exposed on a photosilkscreen, a technique developed during Carter’s workspace collaboration. When the silkscreen is laid on top of a papermaking mould and a sheet of paper is formed, the silkscreen image “develops” inside the paper, a physical positive formed in pulp. The resulting images appear fossil-like, remnants of a human presence that have been preserved for posterity. The nature of the watermark, with its translucent quality, adds another layer of separation, making the subject even more remote.
About the Artist
Carter Hodgkin (b. 1955) received a BFA in Painting & Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Certificate of Advanced Multimedia from NYU. Hodgkin has exhibited in the United States, Europe and Asia. Solo shows have ranged from New York and San Francisco to Tokyo, Japan and New Delhi, India. Her work has been featured in group shows including “The Digital Body”, ZKM Center for Art & Media in Karlsruhe, Germany and “Excess in the Technomediacratic Society”, Musee Dole, France. In India, she exhibited at Nature Morte New Delhi and was U.S. representative artist at the Khoj International Workshop.
Awards include the New York Foundation for the Arts (2009, 2002, 1989), the Gottlieb Foundation (2012, 2005) and the Pollock Krasner Foundation (2002). Nominations include Anonymous Was a Woman and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. Americans for the Arts cited her permanent Public Art Project “Electromagnetic Fall” as one of the best public art projects for 2010.
Articles and reviews of her work have appeared in such publications as Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, Artbyte and The New Yorker. Her work is included in Art+Science Now, a visual survey of artists working at the frontiers of science and technology. Her work appears in public and private collections including the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, the Basil Alkazzi Foundation, the U.S. Art in Embassies Program, the Stanford University Art Collection and the Library of Congress. She lives and work in New York and teaches at Parsons/The New School for Design. (Source: Artist’s Website)
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