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Anita Hodges – Zand

Art has been essential to my life since I was four years old and stood in front of Degas’s sculpture “Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen” at the MFA in Boston. I knew I wanted to be an artist.

Attaining a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design prepared me for a successful and diverse career as a graphic designer, illustrator, digital artist, acrylic painter to my current endeavors as a mixed media artist and a MFA student at Massachusetts College of Art and Design

As the world is turned upside down, by the Covid-19 pandemic and now the global response to the killing of George Floyd and other black lives, my work too is changing.

I start each piece with a written message to my subject, the anger, the hopes, and a kind of venting board. The work now embraces the message through layering paint, sanding, scraping and other manipulating. I am beginning to find a voice. 

I have come to the realization that I have a history of mark making behind me and a lifetime to develop that personal language and use it in a positive way to impact this culture. I am trying to turn ugly into a positive message. I am trying to make people think about what is under all these layers, like the complex issues we are dealing with.

ahzand@gmail.com

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