Sculpture Space NYC Center for Ceramic Arts is pleased to present Evolvers and Wildtypes, an solo exhibition by Judy Hoffman
Judy Hoffman Solo Exhibition at SSNYC-Center for Ceramic Arts
April 05 – May 04, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, April 05, 2024, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Artist conversation with Graham Marks: April 20 @ 2 pm
Closing reception: May 4, 4-6 pm
Sculpture Space NYC is pleased to present Judy Hoffman’s “Evolvers and Wildtypes”.
In her first solo exhibition of ceramic sculpture Judy Hoffman will present over 30 works ranging in size from 4 to 20 inches high. Hoffman explores themes of regeneration, decay, and birth. Her colorfully complex hybrids present fantastical structures that are simultaneously landscape, human figuration, and industrial artifacts.
In an essay accompanying the exhibition, writer Kay Whitney states, “The most defining aspect of her work is its emotional range; through her use of color, she infuses her work with references to a variety of states - from the lighthearted to the deeply introspective. Within these emotional registers she often injects notes of existential absurdity into the vocabulary of her structures. These profound characteristics lie at the heart of Hoffman's enterprise - they are the psychic underpinnings making her work both moving and intimate. Her ability to organize, disorganize and reorganize space is animated by the emotional intensity injected into each form. Her working methods mix the deeply serious with the absurd - a strategy that makes her work approachable, inviting, distinctive and memorable.”
Hoffman has exhibited her ceramic sculpture and site specific installations in New York City venues including Wave Hill, Lesley Heller Gallery, Sculpture Space NYC, Jane Hartsook Gallery, BRIC, Ceres, Nutureart, Proteus Gowanus, Kentler International Drawing Center and Shirley Project Space; Rutgers and Jersey City Universities, New Jersey; Mary Grove College, Detroit; University of North Texas; and the Bienalle Bonn/Frauen Museum and Kunstler Forum in Bonn, Germany.
Hoffman’s artist books are in public collections including the Brooklyn Museum Library, Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University Art Gallery.
Hoffman is a winner of the 2016 New York Studio School Art Critical Alumni Award, a recipient of a 2017 fellowship at Greenwich House Pottery and an anniversary artist grant from Women’s Studio Workshop, and has been featured in the journal Hand Papermaking. Her art has been recognized by critics from the New York Times, the Village Voice, Hyperallergic, the Washington Post and Sculpture Magazine. She is a graduate of Grinnell College and studied at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.
Photos by: Paul Takeuchi.
Sculpture Space NYC - Center for Ceramic Arts is a ceramic and sculpture center founded in 2013. Sculpture Space NYC's mission is to stimulate creativity, new ideas and collaboration in ceramics-based investigations. Artists, designers, and craftspeople of all backgrounds converge in this center to experiment, learn, make, reflect and grow artistically.
SSNYC-CCA Curatorial Program is dedicated to promoting contemporary visual art focusing on the research and exploration of three-dimensional work with an emphasis towards ceramics. The not-for-profit gallery maintains an ongoing exhibition schedule featuring works of the underrepresented artist community, as well as the work of emerging and established artists.
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Location: we are located at 47-21 35th Street, Long Island City NY 11101, near the 33rd Street/ Rawson Street stop on the 7 train.
