Karma presents Authorities of Reason, an exhibition of paintings by Reggie Burrows Hodges, open from January 11 to February 13, 2025, at 7351 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles.
The works in Authorities of Reason feature finely wrought allusions to Western art history and architecture, but push past the skin of the paintings and something more nuanced emerges.
Coming face to face, often for the first time, with certain canonical artworks in the cities in which they were made, Hodges reflected on the resonances between the bloodshed recurring as a subject in these historical paintings and the systems of violence that undergird contemporary life.
The starkly silhouetted figures, depicted in contrapposto, in works such as Rosewood (Paris) and Calm Crillon (Paris) evoke classical sculpture, while other paintings pivot on quiet or liminal moments amidst over-historicized European grandeur.
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