JEANNE HOFFMAN
On the rim of the sunrise II, 2021 | On the rim of the sunrise I, 2021 | Net of whispers II, 2021
Acrylic on Italian cotton
520 x 420 mm Framed

Works-in-progress at the artist’s studio.

“The 'architecture' of the space (the painting) frames a symbolic constellation that is a space of continuous transformation: It is where the 'I' – the person engaged, whether artist or viewer – moves between movement and stasis, between separation and union, between what is real and what is possible, between the visible and the sayable. This contract between what is painted and what is not, between materiality and absence, brings to life a pictorial space that leaves room for the imagination. The artwork does not only testify to difference, but opens it into a region, an imaginary space, where paradoxes can, and do, co-exist; it is a productive space, a site for moments of insight.”

- Jeanne Hoffman

JEANNE HOFFMAN
To be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back II, 2021
Acrylic on Italian cotton
1525 x 1120 mm Framed

JEANNE HOFFMAN
Fragment garden, 2021
Acrylic on Italian cotton
825 x 625 mm Framed

Hoffman sees paintings as places where language engages with the ineffable. Nonetheless, conversations take place as disparate realities invade one another’s territory. These are fertile spaces, creative through the multiple encounters and conflicts. From one territory, moves the unmitigated, primordial, ineffable; from another, the mediated, rationalised, observed – each drawn towards the other in this space of painting, first articulated through the artist’s fragmented collection of experiences, then continued through a series of poetic responses to these recollections.

JEANNE HOFFMAN
Standing against the sky II, 2021
Acrylic on Italian cotton
520 x 420 mm Framed

JEANNE HOFFMAN
Crossing fields, 2021
Acrylic on Italian cotton
1225 x 1020 mm Framed

JEANNE HOFFMAN
Dream window, 2021
Acrylic on Italian cotton
825 x 620 mm Framed

Dream window borrows its title from a 1992 documentary on Japanese gardens, referencing the conceptual and aesthetic devices of the ancient horticultural artform – that juxtapose outside with inside, order with wildness, materiality with absence, the stasis of framing (the captured moment) with perpetual movement, growth, change. These purposes run parallel to those of Hoffman’s practice, where her paintings are intended as places, spaces or stages upon which various gestures and encounters take shape.”

- Jeanne Hoffman

Works-in-progress at the artist’s studio.

JEANNE HOFFMAN
Lodged in a crease between daybreak and sunset, 2021
Throw the yellow staircase, 2021
Acrylic on Italian cotton
520 x 420 mm Framed

JEANNE HOFFMAN
To be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back I, 2021
Acrylic on Italian cotton
1525 x 1120 mm Framed

Works-in-progress at the artist’s studio.

JEANNE HOFFMAN
Balancing a diamond on a blade of grass, 2021
Acrylic on Italian cotton
1220 x 1020 mm Framed

“The notion of a work being a collage of fragments that catches your eye in passing: things as seen from the corner of your eye. An accumulation of fragments that become a finished work through a process of “gardening” the fragments.”

- Jeanne Hoffman

JEANNE HOFFMAN
Reading the world from a gradually widening point of view, 2021
Acrylic on Italian cotton
1525 x 1120 mm Framed

Works-in-progress at the artist’s studio.