Part IX: What’s on artist Cheri Hoffman’s drawing board?

Cheri Hoffman, above, acknowledged that the pandemic “profoundly affected my work early on and now—the materials, the scale and the content. After settling in during the lock down, I often worked at my dining table and sometimes in front of the news, just to endure it. I set up with gouache, ink and watercolor, tore paper down to a small size and had a stack ready to go at anytime.”

Years ago Hoffman had a studio at the City Museum, but for the last couple of years she’s been creating art in a light-filled space in the CWE. She’s photographed in front of a gallery wall in her studio that’s filled with a variety of mixed-media pieces, including a portrait of artist and good friend Genell Miller who also lived in the CWE, far left.

Hoffman describes the small piece above as one of her Covid Paintings.

The charcoal and graphite drawing above started with a crack in the 30″x 23″ paper. Hoffman utilized the imperfection to create a minimal landscape reminiscent of one she had photographed in Peru.

The oil on paper paintings shown above are a collaboration between the artist and her son Max. He painted the surfaces, she followed with the lines.

“Chaos has a shape,” Hoffman said, of the gouache, pencil & ink piece she created above left.

More Covid Paintings are shown above.

“For many years my work has been process driven—broad experimentation and mark-making that didn’t really change. I found calm in repetition when creating the series shown above, similar to the way stitching is calming.” These small pieces are 7 1/2″ x 11.”

“I also made what were previously called travel paintings, but now they are a response to a changing season (Spring) and to events in the news—making them more like journal paintings.”

For more information about Hoffman’s art, contact her via email, [email protected]. Follow this talented artist on Instagram. When her website is completed, I’ll add it to this post.

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