A Painterly Pursuit with Reggie Burrows Hodges

Reggie Burrows Hodges (b. Compton, CA) creates paintings that engage with themes of memory, labor, and power. Hodges’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions at, among others, the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York; Karma, Los Angeles and New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts. His work is held in the public collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Tate Modern, London, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Bridget R. Cooks is professor of Art History and African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on African American artists, Black visual culture, and museum criticism. She is author of the book Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum. Cooks has curated several exhibitions including Grafton Tyler Brown: Exploring California at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective at the California African American Museum, The Black Index (four venue national tour), and Lava Thomas: Homecoming at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.

After completing his studies at the University and the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Davide began his career as curator at the National Gallery of Parma, Italy. Before joining the Getty Museum's Department of Paintings in 2014, he served as the director of the Galleria Estense in Modena from 2012 to 2014. He specializes in painting, sculpture, and decorative arts of the Renaissance; the rediscovery of classical antiquity; and the history of collecting, with particular emphasis on the Italian Renaissance.