Margaret Schnebly Hodge
Raised in Florida from an early age, Margaret Schnebly Hodge grew up during the pop culture movement which ushered in the counter-culture movement of the 1960’s. Her mother’s work in outdoor recreation and her father’s work in the space industry introduced Margaret to a wide range of experiences from running barefoot outdoors in sunshine, rain, and storm, to watching rockets reach space and the moon for the first time. The complex and dynamic flux of societal norms and the ever-dynamic physical activity and environmental conditions of those years remain influential in her work today.
Hodge graduated from Daytona State College and then received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Florida where she took classes from muralist and sculptor Hollis Holbrook and the creator of photomontage Jerry Uelsmann.
Hodge’s traveling exhibit of more than thirty large format paintings has shown in seven major venues around the state. Her work is in both public and private collections including the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach and the L. Gale Lemerand Permanent Collection at Daytona State College. Showing in more than fifty juried and invitational exhibits, she has received significant artistic awards and honors including a State of Florida Artist Enhancement Grant. Beyond her fine art she has helped steer major art focused community programs and development and has held top office in three not-for-profit state-wide arts organizations.
Artist’s Statement
I have always looked to the internal and the eternal to find meaning in the physical world. Thus thoughts of the space time continuum and flux are essential to my work both as content and as process. My lines, marks, and colors are metaphors for the underlying energy and elements of all things physical and perceived. Within this process, my work may also deal with barriers; self-imposed or constructed by societal arrangements, and the methods used to break free or survive them.
Primarily a large-scale painter of figurative and non-objective work, I often begin with an over-all toned background. I may find shapes within the initial tones that function as catalysts for additional mark and form making. Using scrafitto, glazes, scumbling, and impasto, I veil and reveal, disrupt, flow, harmonize, and agitate media across the surface. Sometimes manufactured materials add external dimension to the implied space of my paintings.
Awards and Grants
Award of Merit, 100% Pure Florida, 5th Avenue Gallery, Melbourne, FL, 2022
County of Volusia Artist Enhancement Grant, County of Volusia, 2007
Florida Arts Council Artist Enhancement Grant, State of Florida Cultural Council, 2006
Third Place, New York Times “Parallels”, Artful Gardens Gallery, Zephyrhills, FL, 2006
First Place, Lake Mary Heathrow Festival of the Arts, Lake Mary, FL, 2006
First Place, Lake Mary Heathrow Festival of the Arts, Lake Mary, FL, 2005
Museum Purchase Award, Halifax Art Festival, Daytona Beach, FL, 2002
3 Gold, 1 Silver ADDY Awards, 4th District American Adv Fed., Florida/Caribbean, 1998; 11 ADDY Awards, 4th District American Advertising Federation, Florida/Caribbean, 1983-1984
College Art Scholarship from Daytona Beach Art League, 1971
Collections
L. Gale Lemerand Permanent Collection, Lemerand Student Center, Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, FL
Northwest Florida State College, Niceville, FL
Corporate Collection, County of Volusia, FL
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL
Public Art, City of Daytona Beach
Public Art, City of Lake Helen
Multiple private and corporate collections in Florida and Southeast United States
Solo Exhibitions
Museum of Florida Art and Culture, South Florida State College, Avon Park, FL, Feb-March 2020
Thrasher-Horne Center for Arts, St. Johns River State College, Orange Park, FL, April-June 2017
Rao Musunuru, M.D. Art Gallery, Pasco-Hernando State College, Newport Richey, FL, 2017
Mattie Kelly Fine & Performing Arts Center, Northwest Florida State College, Niceville, FL, 2015
Dr. Gene Prough Center for the Arts, Chipola State College, Marianna, FL, 2015
The News Journal Center at Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, FL, 2014
Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Jacksonville, FL, 2014 and 2007
Yvonne Scarlett-Golden Cultural and Educational Center, Daytona Beach, FL, 2013
Chamber of Commerce, DeLand, FL, 2013
Art in the Square, City of Tavares, FL, 2012 and 2007
The Casements, Ormond Beach, FL, 2009
Artisan Gallery, DeLand, FL – installation “The Package”, 2009
Main Street DeLand, exhibit hall, DeLand, FL, 2005
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL, 2005
African American Museum of Art, DeLand, FL, 2005
Founding Artist-Initiated and Managed Collaborative Events
Art in the Sunshine, a 20-mile road project: 300 art works out of repurposed plastic were created by 100 artists and installed along a 20-mile route in Volusia County for 3 months, FL, 2007
COVART: 20 art works by 5 artists from found objects installed along trails in a local park for 1 month, Daytona Beach, FL, 2006
Freedom Field: 50 art works on the theme of Freedom created by 30 artists were displayed at a major retail venue Memorial Day weekend; donated to a Veterans Home, Daytona Beach, FL, 2009
Group Exhibitions, Juried Competitions and Invitationals
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL 2022
All Florida, Alliance for the Arts, Fort Myers, FL 2022
00% Pure Florida, 5th Avenue Gallery, Melbourne, FL 2022
Florida Artists Group Annual Exhibit, virtual exhibit, 2022
"New Art New Start", Beach Art Center, Indian Rock Beach, FL 2022
The FL3TCH3R Exhibit, Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City,TN 2021
Dunedin Center for the Arts, Dunedin, FL 2021
Foosaner Museum at Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 2020
ARTFIELDS, Lake City, SC 2019
Naples Art Gallery, Naples, FL 2019
Ringling College of Art + Design, Sarasota, FL 2019
Influence of Sound, Ormond Museum of Art, Ormond Beach, FL 2018/2019
Off the Beaten Path Florida Arts Tour, Ormond Beach, FL 2018
Webber Gallery, College of Central Florida, Ocala, FL 2018
Harris House Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL 2018
Annual Juried Show, Florida Museum for Women Artists, DeLand, FL, 2013
Peabody Auditorium Performing Arts Center, Daytona Beach, FL (3 artists), 2009
Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens, Winter Park, FL, 2007
Bethune Cookman University Performing Art Center Gallery, Daytona Beach, FL, 2007
DeLand Museum of Art, “Florida Biennial”, DeLand, FL, 2006
New York Times “Parallels”, Artful Gardens Gallery, Zephyrhills, FL, 2006
Ormond Memorial Museum, “Figurative”, Ormond Beach, FL, (3 artists), 2006
Lyssa Morgan Gallery, International Exhibit, Tampa, FL, 2006
News Journal Performing Arts Center, Daytona Beach, FL, 2006
City of Tavares, City Hall, Tavares, FL, 2005
Mount Dora Center for the Arts, “Metaphor”, Mount Dora, FL (2 artists), 2005
Art League of Daytona Beach, FL (3 artists), 2005
Park Avenue Fine Art Gallery, Winter Park, FL, 2005
Thomas Kelly Administration Center, Florida Committee, National Museum of Women in the Arts, DeLand, FL, 2004 and 2005
International Show, Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL, 2004
Artscape Naples, Gallery Victoria, Naples, FL, 2004
DeLand Museum of Art, “Florida Biennial”, DeLand, FL, 2004
Orlando Museum of Art, 1st Thursday event (Sept), Orlando, FL, 2003
Ormond Memorial Museum, “Pro Art”, Ormond Beach, FL, 2003
Orlando Museum of Art, 1st Thursday event (Oct/Sept), Orlando, FL, 2003