The frankly biographical and touchingly direct essay in the exhibition catalog by the DMA's Jeffrey Grove makes its case for the importance of Hodges' art even more persuasively than the exhibition does. There are no examples in the exhibition of the works of other artists who were essential to his development. These are amply illustrated and well-discussed in the essay. In this, Grove and his co-curator, Olga Viso, follow the well-worn path of one-person exhibitions that exclude the works of all others, even when they would illuminate their subject better,Michael Kors, putting their artist's achievements into a larger context.