“Chromium Dip” (acrylic on linen), by Lewiston, Maine-based artist Reggie Burrows Hodges, in his show “Turning a Big Ship,’’ at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass.
© Reggie Burrows Hodges. Courtesy of the artist and Karma.
The Maine College of Art and Design, in Portland, where Mr. Hodges teaches, describes him thus:
“Reggie Burrows Hodges is a narrative figurative painter whose work centers around visual metaphor and storytelling. He works primarily large-scale on raw canvas, wood and rag paper with acrylic and pastel — exploring themes such as identity, truth, surveillance, and often childhood memories. As method, Hodges paints from a black ground, developing the environment around the figure so it emerges from its surroundings, examining the possibility that we are all products of our environment.”
Bates Mill (as in Lewiston’s well-regarded Bates College) and canal in 1915, when the city was a major manufacturing center.
