I REMEMBER HEAVEN:
JIM HODGES AND ANDY WARHOL
January 26 - April 22, 2007

Jim Hodges, Oh Great Terrain and installation pictures

I Remember Heaven: Jim Hodges and Andy Warhol explores shared affinities in the work of Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and Jim Hodges (b. 1957), preeminent artists of their respective generations. Over 60 works will be featured in a series of dynamic installations that juxtapose both artists’ works in order to explore the American social fabric since the 1960s. This cross-generational exhibition looks at the work of Hodges and Warhol within a continuum of art production that finds history in everyday artifacts and uses aesthetic representation as a means to understand visibility/invisibility, sexuality, selfhood, love, beauty, and death.

Organized by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis , I Remember Heaven is guest curated by Susan E. Cahan, art historian, independent curator, and Des Lee Professor in Contemporary Art at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a full-color catalog and distributed internationally by D.A.P. (Distributed Art Publishers), New York. Available from the Contemporary or Distributed Art Publishers, New York.

National City is the Lead Sponsor of I Remember Heaven: Jim Hodges and Andy Warhol. Funding for this exhibition has been provided by the Des Lee Collaborative Vision at the University of Missouri St. Louis. Support for the catalog has been provided by CRG Gallery, New York, and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London.

General support for the Contemporary's exhibitions has been provided by the Whitaker Foundation; William E. Weiss Foundation; Regional Arts Commission; Arts and Education Council; Missouri Arts Council, a state agency; and Friends and Members of the Contemporary, with in-kind support from ALIVE Magazine, and Glazer's Midwest.

Andy Warhol, Jackie	Andy Warhol, Self Portrait