Visiting artist, Floribunda
March 31- April 16, 2005
Opening Reception Thursday March 31, 6-8 pm
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snowden hodges
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About the artist
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Hawaii-based
painter Snowden Hodges was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended
The Maryland Institute College of Art and received a BFA cum
laude in 1970 and an MFA in 1976. He currently resides
in Honolulu where he is a Professor of Art at the University
of Hawaii-Windward.
Hodges has an extensive exhibition record with numerous solo
shows at institutions and galleries in Europe, the United States
and Japan. His paintings have been selected eleven times for
the prestigious annual "Artists of Hawaii Exhibit"
at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. He has received the Hawaii
State Foundation for Culture and the Arts Acquisition Award
four times.
Many of his works are in important national and international
private, public, and corporate collections, including the Smithsonian
Institution in Washington, D.C., The Contemporary Museum in
Honolulu, The Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Hawaii State Art
Museum, The First Hawaiian Bank, The Bank of Hawaii, Kagawa
College, Shikoku, Japan, and the British Institute of Florence,
Italy.
In 1977, Hodges was an expedition artist with the National Geographic
Society team studying prehistoric structures in the southwestern
United States. As a result of his involvement in the National
Geographic expedition he illustrated the book, Living the
Sky: The Cosmos of the American Indian. His drawings were
also used in The Smithsonian Book of North American Indians
and as illustrations in other books and magazines. Most recently
he illustrated My Name is Loa published by Island Heritage
Press. Hodges was the subject of a “One-Minute-Egg”
produced by KHET television in Honolulu in conjunction with
Egg the Arts Show on PBS.
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Christmas Cactus, Snowden
Hodges, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 inches |
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Snowden Hodges
