This intricate porcelain and gold piece is part of Alex Hodge’s Historic Jar collection that celebrates the tenacity and vulnerability of women and clay, an interplay of history and hope.
Set of Four Pieces in Porcelain and Gold Sculpture
Set of Four Pieces: The Ecstasy of St. Teresa, Olympia, the fruits of our labor, and who washes the Feet of Mary Magdalene, 2018
Porcelain and Gold
Dimensions:
Overall size: 18 H x 19.5 W x 5.5 D in.
Individual dimensions:
The Ecstasy of St. Teresa: 18 H x 4.5 D in.
Olympia: 15 H x 5 D in.
The Fruits of Our Labor: 14.5 H x 5 W x 4.5 D in.
Who Washes the Feet of Mary Magdalene?: 16.5 H x 5 W x 5.5 D in.
Unique
Alex Hodge was always drawn to the arts and regularly channeled her creativity as a child whether in watercolor classes or scrapbooking with her mother. Hodge focuses on prioritizing women’s narratives in all aspects of her work. Through the decorative and symbolic details, she hints at narratives without completing them to invite the viewer to participate in creating meaning. The women she invents exist in the present but is of the imagined future in which we all have room to flourish, to tell our stories, to give and receive love, and to express the beauty and pain of the human condition. Fundamentally, her artworks are a celebration of the tenacity and vulnerability of women and clay, an interplay of history and hope.
