Alex Hodge Abstract Sculptures

“Carry the song..” Carry the song of my breath to your chest. And you will call me back. And like this we will find one another. No matter how lost we may be. I won’t give up. This ...

This vessel was built using the traditional and ancient methods of coil building. Through this meditative process, ancestral connections are drawn. The composition wraps around the f...

“We had been mountains…” We had been mountains, and now a canyon cutting to the core of the Earth. Never to collide again. An end but not my end. I still hope you find the love of me...

“Eyes that are..” Eyes that are at once too sharp and too wild. Seeing everything crystal clear makes the whole world blind. Makes me fill my head with clouds, Pretending these smoke...

“Some days that’s me..” Some days that’s me and the world is an ocean. Vast and overwhelming, so I keep my eyes on the light of you. And like this we always guide one another home. ...

“As you pray...” As you pray, saying only my name, so I might save you from the monotony of waking up on a Wednesday by playing piano. My fingers only tap the keys that make you sing...

“As you pray...” As you pray, saying only my name, so I might save you from the monotony of waking up on a Wednesday by playing piano. My fingers only tap the keys that make you sing...

“Why do you insist on shattering..” Why do you insist on shattering//hovering your boiling blood over the fire? The heat rises to your heartbeat to eat thru your arteries and pour fr...

“Your lipstick left a bruise..” Your lipstick left a bruise on my wrist. I tried to wipe it away, but my pulse was still thumping. The honey on your tongue left me sticky. Sweating s...

This cup is one of 48 that make up the installation, “Fragments of Our Love Story.” These cups feature feminine forms that recall the Venus of Willendorf and other historical fertility objects...

“Your name plays…” Your name plays like a prayer in my mind. I hear it coming out of my heart, not with longing, but with hope. You are my hope for this world and I pray your name ag...

“Your pulsing giant heart..” Your pulsing giant heart brings you to your knees. Praying while you pull it out. Shove it into the earth and let it be home. May flowers grow where the ...

This cup is one of 48 that make up the installation, “Fragments of Our Love Story.” These cups feature feminine forms which recall the Venus of Willendorf and other historical fertil...

“Why do you insist on shattering...” Why do you insist on shattering//hovering your boiling blood over the fire? The heat rises to your heartbeat to eat through your arteries and pou...

This vessel is a part of the series Unsung Muses and references art historical imagery such as Botticelli’s Venus, the Minoan Snake Goddess, Hera, and th...

In this sculptural jar series, the artist draws on iconography surrounding nature, women and the history of Western art to question our place in the order of things. Women and nature...

“Eyes that are..” Eyes that are at once too sharp and too wild. Seeing everything crystal clear makes the whole world blind. Makes me fill my head with clouds, Pretending these smoke...

“Your name plays…” Your name plays like a prayer in my mind. I hear it coming out of my heart, not with longing, but with hope. You are my hope for this world and I pray your name ag...

This vessel is the first of the Unsung Muses series, and it references two compositions by Cezanne in which women are seen bathing, undisturbed by the voyeurism of the artist and/or ...

“Growing out of my ribcage...” Growing out of my ribcage, just to let your softness multiply into a whole sky of lush clouds crowning the forest, so we can become a jungle dense with...

“No one ever fed you..” No one ever fed you. The taste of unanswered love. No one ever taught you. Love is not a question, not an answer. But an exclamation, requiring no response bu...

“You wanted something..” You wanted something perfect. Delicately pure. Weak. I grew against your darkness. Never giving you the satisfaction of my face, my gaze. The strength of me:...

This vase is a derivative of my Portrait collection; the vase features a woman on each side, one with a fire at her throat, and the other with a pattern, which may be interpreted as ...

The portraits, loaded with symbolic imagery, gaze out at the viewer, with a variety of intensities and emotions. This is to say, each woman has a story, which may not be directly evi...

This petite ceramic vase features bright cool colors and plant forms, with winding snakes as the center characters. The jungle aesthetic accentuates the dense connotations of the sna...

This piece recalls Manet’s painting of the same name. While Manet sought to confront the viewer with Olympia’s gaze, as she was a known sex worker, Hodge’s ...

This piece recalls the art historical depictions of Mary Magdalene. Though she is often contextualized as the one who washed Jesus’s feet, Hodge centers her as the subject and asks “Who takes care of her?”. She answers with the scene of another woman washing her feet, which speaks to the ways that women’s care for one another is often unseen. The three series that make up her thesis show all center around the woman as an art historical trope who becomes a contemporary archetype of tenderness and tenacity with her own narrative. The tradition of the woman as muse or object is questioned and turned upside down as she gives her women the position of subject, i.e., the position of power. The jars, which uphold pairs of women, are the ultimate overturn of male dominance as she removes and replaces all male characters from famous artworks with women...

This vessel is one of the first from the series of pots Unsung Muses and prioritizes the narrative of Hatshepsut, as she was perhaps the most successful female pharaoh of Egypt. She brought prosperity and peace to Egypt through her work to improve infrastructure and trade routes. Her success was so great that her male successors attempted to erase her from history by literally chiseling her image off the walls and attempting to destroy all statues of her. By honoring her existence in this large vessel, I center the narrative of women’s power...

“Is beating me from the inside..” …Is beating me from the inside. Breaking my ribcage just to reach you. The palm trees are rustling, making secrets with the wind. The water is rumbl...

“Me soaking up the light..” Me soaking up the light of you. I imagine you so close to me we blur into each other’s atoms creating our own rhythms, a whole world of us in a daydream. ...

“I could start fires..” I could start fires with what I feel for you. Destructive love. Engulfing flames. Burn the world until the ashes fly into space. Nothing left but feeling. “...

“Your pulsing giant heart..” Your pulsing giant heart bringing you to your knees. Praying while you pull it out. Shove it into the earth and let it be home. May flowers grow where th...

“Is beating me from the inside..” …Is beating me from the inside. Breaking my ribcage just to reach you. The palm trees are rustling, making secrets with the wind. The water is rumbl...

“So I lay here..” So I lay here curled in a home that is not my home (anymore). The sound of the memory. Tire whirring on asphalt. Echoing against the trees, becoming a hum. This cu...

“I could start fires...” I could start fires with what I feel for you. Destructive love. Engulfing flames. Burn the world until the ashes fly into space. Nothing left but feeling... ...

“Your lipstick left a bruise..” Your lipstick left a bruise on my wrist. I tried to wipe it away, but my pulse was still thumping. The honey on your tongue left me sticky. Sweating s...

This ceramic vase features lush, vibrant plant forms. On each side, a hand emerges as if to reach for something. The title references both the vulnerability of the earth and humanity...

The portraits, loaded with symbolic imagery, gaze out at the viewer, with a variety of intensities and emotions. This is to say, each woman has a story, which may not be directly evi...

Her poetic porcelain plates examine and reimagine the history of art in a way that values ​​women not only in body, but in wholeness, power, and love. Focusing on the narrative quali...

The portraits, loaded with symbolic imagery, gaze out at the viewer, with a variety of intensities and emotions. This is to say, each woman has a story, which may not be directly evi...

This vessel is part of the Unsung Muses series, and it illustrates various versions of the Goddess Astarte in juxtaposition with rows of pattern and text. The text on the body of the...