Ruth M Hodgins

Born: Glasgow, Scotland
D.O.B: 1981

Working in Collaboration with Kit Rosenberg.
Currently living and working in San Francisco, USA.

For the most part, our day-to day lives are governed by semantic assumptions; if
we ask the appropriate vendor, for instance, May I have a banana please? we
expect to be handed a yellow crescent-shaped fruit. Most people, it seems would
admit that words are tethered somewhat arbitrarily to what they signify ( a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet), but however well-established the idea
might be, we rarely see this premise of instability in action.
In my practice, such bets are off. By challenging presumptions, I utilize the norm
in order to foster different connotations, creating a visual dialogue that is
provocative, humorous and absurd. My works attempts to re-arrange and twist
the sentiment of everyday forms; visually yelling altered values to the established
semantic conclusions.

Ruth Hodgins received her BA from the Glasgow School of Art and her MFA from San
Francisco Art Institute. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including
The Atrium Gallery in Glasgow and Phyllis Wattis Theater at The Museum of Modern
Art in San Francisco. Her work will be on view in an upcoming residency at Platform 3 in
Munich, Germany.,