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Sculpture, Modeling in Clay
Barney Hodesâ life-size sculpture class gives students an opportunity to spend an
extended period of time on a single piece of sculpture. A model will be provided to
maintain one pose from two to four months.
Work produced in this class has included life-size pieces of two models combined
in a single pose, torsos three times life-size and portraits five feet in height.
In explaining his approach, Mr. Hodes says, ăIf the work is diverse, its basis is
not. This is sculpture that comes from an understanding of what the body is, based upon
what the body doesööan approach that hit its high-water mark in Europe during the
Baroque. It is also a tradition that centered around sculpting the nude life-size or larger.ä
The combination of life-size work and anatomical function was the basis of the
New Brooklyn School (now the New York Academy of Art), founded by Mr. Hodes and
painter Francis Cunningham over twenty years ago.
Mr. Hodes was the chairman of the sculpture department at the Brooklyn Museum
Art School from 1974 to 1980. He has taught at St. Johnâs University, Fairleigh
Dickinson University, Brooklyn College, Friends Seminary and University of North
Carolina.
In March 1999, Mr. Hodes was honored to have been chosen by his colleagues at
the Art Students League to join other Art Students League instructors in a show of
mentors and teachers who have made a crucial difference to their students. Nothing, in
almost forty years of teaching, has made him prouder.
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