As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.
Jim Hodges

But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion.
Jim Hodges

Color is an intense experience on its own.
Jim Hodges

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.
Jim Hodges

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?
Jim Hodges

However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.
Jim Hodges

I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.
Jim Hodges

I think that some works are more accessible than others.
Jim Hodges

I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.
Jim Hodges

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.
Jim Hodges


I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.
Jim Hodges

I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.
Jim Hodges

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.
Jim Hodges

I'm an average person.
Jim Hodges

It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.
Jim Hodges

Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.
Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.
Jim Hodges

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.
Jim Hodges

There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make.
Jim Hodges

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
Jim Hodges