Derrick Hodgson show opening

December 12th, 2007

Last dec. 15th we celebrated the opening of a new show by Derrick Hodgson (www.madreal.com), a Toronto based artist and illustrator whose work is a clear example of the so called “character design” thing. His imagery is based on his own experiences growing up in a small rural community north of Toronto and relating these experiences to the expanding urban environment he finds himself in at present. His recent work deals with a theme of rural meets urban and the urge to gain control over our future in relation to an escalating loss of nature. In this work, complex social spaces are crowded with somewhat real and mutated characters. He has been working freelance with a wide range of clients for the past 9 years such as Nike (USA and Canadá), Sony Creative (Japan), 55DSL or Fox TV (USA) among many others and has participated in a number of solo and group shows in galleries worldwide from Denmark to Australia or Italy. This will be his first solo show in Spain and under the title “Heavy Stew”. In his own words: “in simple terms the concept of stewing is putting a bunch of ingredients in a pot and letting them cook for a long period of time… I do this with my drawings and characters… its a visual stew of line and colour”.

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