SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery, who sponsored our Sonnet-a-Thon on Valentine's Day, is having this month's Opening Reception on Thursday May 12th, 5-8pm, 547 W 27th St, Suite 301 in Manhattan.  Stop by and see what is always fantastic art!

SOHO20 Chelsea gallery is pleased to present Unnatural Disasters, new work by Lucy Hodgson.  Hodgson’s natural/man-made hybrids are a biting commentary on today’s environmental plight.

These new works focus on forms, which act as converters and receptors. Emerging and melding into the gallery space, these works, though playful and even humorous, hold a sinister reminder of what havoc humans have reeked on the natural world.  Bamboozled features a ramshackle bamboo structure “bobbing” adrift mischievous oil slicks, a reference to the exploitation of the Middle Eastern oil industry. Using materials such as plywood, metal piping, tree limbs, rust and steel, Hodgson often exhibits the work outdoors, coaxing along the impermanence of these semi-natural works.

Hodgson’s work has always maintained a sort of intellectual sucker-punch at the viewer. Always visually stunning and often 10 or more feet tall, her forms belie the fact that the work is a critique of the social and political tug-of-war on the natural world.

The work will be on view through May 28th. For more information please contact gallery director Jenn Dierdorf at 212.367.8994 or email at soho20@verizon.net