Being in Art

 Hello to all the lovely creatures out there! In today's post we'll be discussing about an installation titled ''No Betweens" by Jim Hodges! No Betweens - Jim Hodges - 1996 But first, a few words for the artist himself. Jim Hodges is an installation artist based in New York, USA. He is known for his mixed-media scultpures and collages that involve among other materials, delicate flowers, mirrors, chains as spiderwebs, and cut-up jeans. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Fort Wright College in 1980 and his Master of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY in 1986. That year he met the art collector  Elaine Dannheisser who let him use a studio in the basement of her foundation on Duane Street in exchange for working as a part-time art handler. During this time he abandoned his original medium of painting and starrted exploring materiality; this became his first major artistic crisis because he had realized that his concepts weren't co...