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Artist Statement:
ART SHOW IN NEW YORK CITY
Ico Gallery
www.icogallery.com
"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 ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
2004 Newburyport Art
Association in Newburyport, MA
USA juried art show
2005 Newburyport Art
Association in Newburyport, MA
USA juried art show
2006 Ipswich MA USA Sovereign
Bank Solo exhibition
2006 Newburyport, MA Art
Association Water Street
juried art show
2006 July 3-10 Ipswich, MA USA
Visitor Center Solo ...
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Artist Galleries:
Ico Gallery
27 North Moore Street
New York, NY 10013
USA
www.icogallery.com
Marziart
Internationale Galerie
Eppendorfer Weg 110-112
20259 Hamburg
Germany
www.marziart.com...
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"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 a brush. It would be a mistake to think however that Hoffmann's intention 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 such tenderness 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 her 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, glutted with choices, is often unable to do: selecting a path knowing that this means the rejection of infinite others.
by Eugene Hwang
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