Two Truths and a Lie

ROY presents: Justin Hodges

Fri, Nov 13, 2020 - 6:00 PM
Sat, Dec 5, 2020 - 3:00 PM

Two Truths and a Lie, is a body of work that focuses on surfaces. It scrapes context and content together, creating new meaning from old. It mines and misuses imagery, collapsing the distance between artifice and innocence. In Particular, Two Truths and a Lie recognizes that photographs are very often the thin veil joining the virtual and the material.

If feet are the medium that transforms theory into praxis, photography is the currency that transforms observation into action (or inaction). In the end, Two Truths and a Lie makes use of imagery as a raw material. It manipulates and distorts it, puncturing the façade and meditating on the way images shape how meaning is now made and understood.

Artwork is for sale and priced as marked. Artists receive 65% of sales and the 35% ROY retains is invested back into the gallery.

Justin answers the questions ROY asks:

What is your name and preferred pronoun?

1)  Justin Hodges, He, Him, His

How has art changed your life?

2)  As an art educator, art is important in almost every aspect of my life (most of the time for better, sometimes for worse).  In the most practical way, art helps me make sense of the way I exist in the world and my relationship to other people and things like spirituality.

When did you start making art?

3)  I started making photographs in high school and never really stopped.  For a long time, photography was a means document bicycle tricks and road trips.  I went to school for that, and then sort of fell in love with art history and lots of other materials.

What do you want viewers to think when they see your work?

4)  You know that feeling when a comedian tells a joke that's funny, but it also stings a little.  That's sort of what I'm hoping for.

View the ROY talks with Justin & Tess here