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ART SHOW IN NEW YORK CITY
Ico Gallery
"Traces of Memory"
Review by Eugene Hwang
"The Decisiveness of Eva Hoffmann"
Some of Hoffmann's paintings are as rigid and unyielding as math equations. They are sturdy, reliable, and seem almost engineered rather than painted, put together with a welder rather than with brush. It would be a mistake to think however that Hoffmann's intension is to promote industralization. Painting would be an unconvincing medium to convey belief in mass production and manufacturing. The lack of any detail that might burden the eye shows that the forms, which lack the evasiveness that characterizes the art in our frenetic age, are the point.
It may come as a surprise, then, that Hoffmann demonstrates in her terse interpretations of landscapes, which are pared down until they resemble color field paintings. The gentle luminosity of these paintings go beyond the frame of what seems more of a window than a canvas. What these share with more stolid pieces is a comforting cohesiveness. Hoffmann is audaciously decisive and unwilling to leave the viewer in discomfort. She is almost messianic, taking on what our nervous generation, gluted with choices, is often unable to do: selecting ...
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SHE, 2013
Oil Painting,
36 x 48 X 2 inches
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PAPPEL, 2012
Oil Painting,
7 x 5 X 1 inches
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K, 2012
Oil Painting,
5 x 5 X 1 inches
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J, 2012
Oil Painting,
5 x 5 X 1 inches
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JELOUSY, 2011
Oil Painting,
16 x 20 X 1 inches
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PENINSULA, 2012
Oil Painting,
5 x 7 X 1 inches
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