Jonathan Hodges

My practice attempts to examine the relationship between American popular culture and its subjects by appropriating and re-presenting images from popular media as complex collages or highly abstracted forms. I’m interested in the individual relationships that we as subjects build with images, and the symbolic reading that we are able to gather from them. Within my work there is an attempt to evoke memories and feelings that one may have had in association with the image(s) that I have chosen to work with. I work with American media and popular culture because I, as an American, am highly intrigued by the American mentalities including patriotism, its sense of entitlement, and the idea of the “American Dream” as being a paralyzing ideology within contemporary society. In light of current events surrounding global violence I am drawing upon the fragility of media audiences to present subtle subversions in political agendas to my audience. My latest series titled, Lest We Never Forget, is adopting a politically charged statement of pride and patriotism to approach and question the relationships that we build with seemingly violent iconography. I believe that images have inherent ideologies which are projected and perpetuated by thei...

BFA in Visual arts and Material Practices - Print Media
Emily Carr university of Art and Design Vancouver, Canada

2016 Lest We Never Forget: Iconoclastic Inclinations, Solo Exhibition, The Beaumont Studios, Vancouver, Canada
2015 Art Prize7, International Juried Art Exhibition, Grand Rapids City Hall / Richard App Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.
2015 Emily Carr Alumni Exhibition, Dinner by Design Vancouver, CBC Studios, Vancouver, Canada
2015 Arts Under the Umbrella Arts Festival, Community Central Park, Chilliwack, BC
2015 XYZ Collective, Group Exhibition, Ranger Station Gallery, Harrison Hot Springs, BC
2015 The Show, BFA Degree Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada
2015 PRINT: Crossing Pathways, Group Exhibition. Emily Carr University Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2014 Student Art Sale, Group Exhibition. Emily Carr University Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2014 Fracture, Group Exhibition. The Vancouver Art and Leisure Center, Vancouver, Canada
2014 POP, Solo Exhibition. Zanzibars, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
2014 ART REVOLUTION, Group Exhibition. Emily Carr University Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2014 PRINT, Group Exhibition. Emily Carr University Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, Canada