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Howard Hodgkin

From Memory

May 5–June 18, 2016
980 Madison Avenue, New York

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Installation view Artwork © Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Rob McKeever

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Artwork © Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Rob McKeever

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Artwork © Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Rob McKeever

Works Exhibited

Howard Hodgkin, Morning, 2015–16 Oil on wood, 19 ⅞ × 25 ½ inches (50.5 × 64.8 cm)© Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd

Howard Hodgkin, Morning, 2015–16

Oil on wood, 19 ⅞ × 25 ½ inches (50.5 × 64.8 cm)
© Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd

Howard Hodgkin, Love Song, 2015 Oil on wood, 43 × 61 ½ inches (109.2 × 156.2 cm)© Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd

Howard Hodgkin, Love Song, 2015

Oil on wood, 43 × 61 ½ inches (109.2 × 156.2 cm)
© Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd

Howard Hodgkin, From Memory, 2014–15 Oil on wood, 27 ⅞ × 33 ⅛ inches (70.8 × 84.1 cm)© Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd

Howard Hodgkin, From Memory, 2014–15

Oil on wood, 27 ⅞ × 33 ⅛ inches (70.8 × 84.1 cm)
© Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd

Howard Hodgkin, Blackmail, 2006–15 Oil on wood, 63 ½ × 69 ½ inches (161.3 × 176.5 cm)© Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd

Howard Hodgkin, Blackmail, 2006–15

Oil on wood, 63 ½ × 69 ½ inches (161.3 × 176.5 cm)
© Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd

Howard Hodgkin, The Rains Came, 2014 Oil on wood, 28 ⅛ × 37 ½ inches (71.4 × 95.3 cm)© Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd

Howard Hodgkin, The Rains Came, 2014

Oil on wood, 28 ⅛ × 37 ½ inches (71.4 × 95.3 cm)
© Howard Hodgkin. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd

About

I am a representational painter, but not a painter of appearances.
—Howard Hodgkin

Gagosianis pleased to present From Memory, recent paintings by Howard Hodgkin.

With sweeping lines of vibrant color, these works convey fleeting private moments and intense recollections. Paintings such as Morning (2015–16) and Dirty Window (2014–15) turn memories of domestic moments into experiences of pure color, while Love Song (2015) and Blues for Mrs. Chatterjee (2015) avow how words fall short of ever truly being able to describe sensations and phenomena. Completed between 2014 and 2016, Hodgkin’s paintings create pockets of time and silence, demonstrating afresh the expressiveness, the mystery, and the seeming simplicity of his art.

With a deep and vivid palette and dynamic interchanges of light and dark, these paintings—always executed in oil on wooden panels—collapse the usual binary distinctions between abstraction and representation, narrative and pure sensation, past and present. Hodgkin’s images are intimate, thoughtful, and ultimately indescribable, yet they suggest great arcs of time and thought.

A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by James Lawrence will accompany the exhibition.