Zach Hodges : Warm beer

07.12 – 30.12.2023

Warm beer presents new paintings in oil from the artist Zach Hodges. Each of the paintings that we see in the exhibition began as a photograph, taken on a slightly out-of-date digital camera. The photographs depict scenes from the artist’s daily surroundings in İstanbul, often during the commute to and from his studio. In some cases, Zach prints the photos and replicates them in paint by way of a graph measured onto the canvas, while others are simply copied directly from a computer screen. In the exhibition, some subjects are painted more than once and focus on slight changes in light and color, which result from the camera’s automatic settings or inconsistencies in the quality of the prints.

The subjects of the work emerged from a series of overexposed photographs of the sea, taken during a ferry trip from Burgazada to Kabataş in September of 2023, and continued to city scenes and still-lives, taken primarily at dusk. Within the scope of Hodges’ previously exhibited work, these paintings purposefully turn away from utilizing found/recycled imagery, focusing instead on self-composed images and lean into traditional painting concerns, such as light, shadow, and mark-making.

Zach Hodges

I couldn’t help it., 2023

Oil on canvas

24 x 18 cm

Artwork ID: 986

Zach Hodges

I couldn’t help it., 2023

Oil on canvas

24 x 18 cm

Artwork ID: 986

Zach Hodges

Street with a tree, 2023

Oil on canvas

30 x 40 cm

Artwork ID: 987

Zach Hodges

Dibek sokak II (landscape), 2023

Oil on canvas

30 x 40 cm

Artwork ID: 988

Zach Hodges

Piknik tekel II, 2023

Oil on canvas

30 x 40 cm

Artwork ID: 990

Zach Hodges

Sorry, dike., 2023

Oil on canvas

24 x 18 cm

Artwork ID: 985

Zach Hodges

Wham bam thank you maam, 2023

Oil on canvas

100 x 130 cm

Artwork ID: 994

Zach Hodges

Dibek sokak I (portrait), 2023

Oil on canvas

40 x 30 cm

Artwork ID: 989

Zach Hodges

Balkan, 2023

Oil on canvas

30 x 40 cm

Artwork ID: 991

Zach Hodges

Piknik tekel I, 2023

Oil on canvas

30 x 40 cm

Artwork ID: 993

Zach Hodges

Çorba, 2023

Oil on canvas

30 x 40 cm

Artwork ID: 992