Lisa Hodgkinson: "Womankind"

STRIDE +15 Window

Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts

208 9 AVE SE

Reception: Thursday, September 18, 2014 from 6 to 7 pm

Refreshments to follow at Wine-Ohs, 811 1ST ST SW

Womankind is a peculiar portrait rooted in wabi-sabi: accepting fleetingness and imperfection. Skeletal lines, twisting and winding upwards, climb to sketch out an irregular human form. The tough skinned graceful silhouette portrays an honest image of femininity. Heating the raw steel rods, they transform into soft elegant fibres to be formed, painted, distressed, and finally, weathered in the sun. This woven and tangled figure is a question of permanence, an understanding of mortality, and an appreciation of flesh.

Lisa Hodgkinson is a Calgary sculptor working out of the back of an auto body shop in Forest Lawn. A graduate from the Alberta College of Art + Design, Lisa is inspired by minimalist sculpture, fibre craft, Japanese design and Bob Dylan.