Monroe Hodder, Large Abstract Expressionist Colorful Painting Monroe Hodder Slow Dancing, 2014

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Monroe Hodder, American, b. 1953 Slow Dancing, 2014 Oil on canvas Signed, titled, and dated verso Provenance: Purchased in 2014 … Read more Monroe Hodder, American, b. 1953 Slow Dancing, 2014 Oil on canvas Signed, titled, and dated verso Provenance: Purchased in 2014 from Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis. Abstract composition centering a hexagonal form. Unframed. Monroe Hodder earned her MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. She was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome on five occasions and in 2019 was a Resident Artist at the Baer Art Center in Iceland. She exhibits worldwide and her work is in nine museum collections. Monroe Hodder is an abstract oil and acrylic painter whose layered works juxtapose geometric forms with expressionist fields of color. She began to paint while living in California and received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. For ten years, she was on the art faculty of several colleges and universities in the Bay Area, curated exhibitions, was an art critic for West Coast publications, and was represented by several galleries in San Francisco. Her experience of working as assistant to the Mexican artist, Manuel Neri, at the San Francisco Art Institute brought her into contact with Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko. Through her involvement with Neri came an affiliation with the Bay Area Figurative School in California, including such artists as Richard Diebenkorn and Elma Bischoff. Monroe and her husband Fred have lived in San Francisco for twenty years, travelling a great deal. She has lived and worked overseas in Russia and England and has been a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome on five occasions. She has also had residencies in Iceland and Nantucket. She was granted a UK Artist Resident Visa followed by British citizenship in 2005. She has exhibited her paintings widely in the US and internationally, including Italy, Korea, France and the UK. She moved from London to New York in 2012 and has recently had solo exhibitions in galleries and art centers in Chelsea and the Lower East Side, New York, as well as London, Denver, Los Angeles, St. Louis and Portland, Or. Her work has been published in several art books and magazines and she was interviewed on PBS TV. Close to fifty reviews have been written about her work and she is in numerous corporate and private collections. Eight paintings by Hodder are held in museum collections. She is represented by Havu Gallery in Denver, CO, Belgravia Gallery in England, Butters Gallery in Portland, OR and the Oehmen Print Center in Steamboat, CO. She is represented by David Richard Gallery in New York, NY. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2021 Physical Show, Big Paintings In Books, David Richard Gallery, New York, NY 2020 Virtual Show, Basement Paintings, David Richard Gallery, New York, NY Virtual Show, November Show of Paintings, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR Virtual Show, September Show of Paintings, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR 2019 Women in Abstraction, William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO 2018 The Future is Liquid Space Gallery, Denver, CO Wilderness Paintings, Belgravia Gallery, Marylands, Ewhurst, Surrey, UK 2017 Future Sky, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR 2016 Continuing the Dialogue, Space Gallery, Denver, CO Roadside Mystics, Video-Painting Event, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ Video-Painting-Photography Exhibition, Chinatown Soup, LES, New York, NY 2015 Opera, Belgravia Gallery, Mayfair London, UK Smoke and Mirrors, William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO New Paintings, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ 2014 Asteroid Enigmas, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR Paintings, Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO New Paintings, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ 2013 Polyphonia, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Head Banging on the Moon, Andre Zarre Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY Romancing Color, William Havu Galley, Denver, CO 2012 The Incidence of the Black Swan, Belgravia Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK Recent Paintings, Arvada Arts Center, Denver, CO 2011 Gangstas and Cupcakes, Andre Zarre Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY Hybrid Fictions, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR New Paintings, Belgravia Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK Paint Up, K Saari Gallery, Steamboat Springs, CO The Incidental and the Infinite, William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO 2010 Recent Paintings, Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA Paintings, Darnell Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021 Underwater, Belgravia Gallery, Marylands, Ewhurst, Surrey, UK Jason McCoy Drawing Challenge, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY Lost And Found, NY Artists Circle, New York, NY 2020 USPS Art Project, Art Gym, Denver, CO Women Painters, Hopper House and Museum, Nyack, NY October Exhibition, Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY Photo exhibition, Michael Warren Gallery, Denver, CO Exhibition of Collectors, LSU Museum, Baton Rouge, LA 2019 Colorado Abstract, Arvada Center, Denver Colorado San Jose Art Institute, San Jose, CA Boulder Art Museum, Boulder, CO 2018 Informed, Space Gallery, Denver, CO Kirkland Museum, Opening Exhibition, Denver, CO Paintings, Belgravia Gallery, 2018 2017 Color: From Primary to Tertiary, curated by Lily Wei, Site Gallery, Brooklyn, NY SJICA, Exhibition and Auction, San Jose, CA Paintings at Chinthurst Hill, Surrey, UK Painting Images at Schwab Center, Stanford, Palo Alto, CA 2016 Paintings at Chinthurst Hill, Surrey, UK Women in Abstraction, Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO Architectural Digest Art Show, Pier 94, New York, NY Monotypes from Oehme Graphics, Space Gallery, Denver, CO Monotype Show, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR Best of Colorado, Arvada Arts Center, Denver, CO About Color, Denver University Gallery, Denver, CO 2015 Miami Basel, Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, FL Chester Arts Fair, Chester, UK Art Show Busan, Busan, Korea Cloud Trousers, Russian Consulate, NYC, and Russian Embassy, Washington, WA 2014 Monotype Exhibition, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR SJICA, San Jose, CA E/AB Art Fair, Oehme Graphics, New York, NY Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, FL 2013 Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, FL Introducing New Artists, Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO Abstraction, Belgravia Gallery, London, UK Twenty Women Artists, William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO Aqua, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR E/AB Art Fair, Oehme Graphics, New York, NY 2011 Contemporary Paintings, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Earth and Fire, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Hong Kong Fine Art Fair, Belgravia Gallery, Hong Kong OTHER EVENTS - Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, 2018 - Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, 1995-6, 1999-00, 2010, 2014-2015 - Paintings exhibited online at Artsy, ArtNet, Saatchi Gallery, ArtSlant - Paintings published in book, Colorado Abstract, 2009 - Film of Paintings by Monroe Hodder, filmed by Jerry Chater and music by Joby Talbot, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK, 2002 and 2005 - TV Interview Show, 15 Minute interview on Art News, PBS Maryland, 2003 - Artist Resident Visa granted by the British Government, 1996-2005, followed by grant of UK Citizenship EDUCATION MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1980-83 Instructors included Elizabeth Murray, Jay DeFeo, Manuel Neri, and Bob Colescott Teaching Assistant for Manuel Neri MBA, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, BA, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, BA See less