Stephen Hodecker
Stephen Hodecker was born in 1956 in Manchester, Connecticut and grew up in New Hampshire. He studied at the University of New Hampshire with John Hatch and Sigmund Abeles. And later in California and Florence, Italy where his classical figure style was established. \line His materials include oil, watercolor, egg tempera and pastel. His work, both landscape and figurative, is rooted firmly in the traditions and themes of European and American realism. Among his influences are Homer, Hopper, Sargent, Wyeth and Olitski. Stephen, has painted the landscape across the country and abroad, most notably Ireland, Scotland. However, his primary subject matter remains rural New England, New Hampshire and the coast of Maine. The flag and its relationship to our culture, central to Hodecker's Remembrance series, continues to emerge as a theme reexamined in recent work. Stephen Hodecker lives and maintains his studio in Meredith, New Hampshire.
STEPHEN HODECKER
BORN: 8 February 1956, Manchester, Connecticut , USA
EDUCATION
1987/88 Plymouth State College - Plymouth, NH: Photography
1982 University of New Hampshire - Durham, NH: Drawing/Sculpture
1980/81 Fortman Studios - Florence, Italy: Drawing
1979 Laguna School of Art - Laguna Beach, CA: Printmaking
1974-77 University of New Hampshire - Durham, NH: Drawing/Painting/Printmaking
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2002 Waterville Valley Gallery of Art: An American Place
1999 Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH: Remembrance
1998 Belknap Mill Society: Remembrance
1998 New England College, Henniker NH: Remembrance
1998 Art and the Environment: The Five Mile Island Campaign - The Trust
1998 New Pastels and Watercolors - Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
1997 Waterville Valley Gallery of Art, Waterville Valley, New Hampshire: Spirit of the Landscape, recent paintings
1996 Toccare - Boston, MA: Stephen Hodecker conte\rquote drawings
1996 Ralls Collection - Washington, DC: Intimate Images; watercolors, drawings, photographs
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002 Harbor Square Gallery - Rockland, Me
2002 Ralls Collection - Washington, DC
1998 Saint Anselms College, Manchester, NH
1998 Ralls Collection - Washington, DC
1997 AVA Gallery
1997 North Country Center for the Arts
1996 Renjeau Gallery - Concord, MA
1996 N.W. Barrett Gallery - Portsmouth, NH
GALLERIES/DEALERS
Four India - Nantucket,MA
Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville DE
The Gallery at Mill Falls, Meredith NH
Ralls Collection - Washington, DC
David Tolley - Endinburgh, Scotland
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/SKILLS
Commissioned Portrait and Figure Studies in Photography/watercolor/conte\rquote /oil/pastel/egg tempera
Teacher/Founder - Waterville Valley School of Art & Private Workshops: watercolor technique/drawing/photography
Publisher/Founder - New Hampshire Images, arts related quarterly
1990 - Founder - Hodecker Galleries
Recording Artist: A Poet's Dream, Compact Disk, copy right1994; original solo acoustic guitar instrumental.
COLLECTIONS
Private and corporate collections throughout the United States and abroad, including,MBNA, Fidelity Investments, Citizens Bank, NH BIA, Alles Corporation, and Just Imagine Marketing and Advertising Inc.
Selected Bibliography:
Boston Globe - 12/14/97
Concord Monitor - 7/2/98
Foster's Citizen - 12/24/98
Laconia Citizen - 1/25/02
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