Christopher James Hoffman
Christopher James Hoffman Figurative (7-works)
Christopher James Hoffman Imaginary Exteriors (1-work)
Drawing - Charcoal on paper
Imaginary Exteriors
17 x 23 in
Call For Price
BLES8608
Christopher James Hoffman Plein Air Watercolor (30-works)
Print - Print
Plein Air Watercolor
7 x 14 in
$225
HOFC17647
Painting - Watercolor on paper
Plein Air Watercolor
16 x 20 in
$300
HOFC17646
Print - Watercolor on paper
Plein Air Watercolor
14 x 10 in
$300
STAW8334
Print - Print
Plein Air Watercolor
14 x 9.5 in
$275
STAW8329
Print - Watercolor on paper
Plein Air Watercolor
14 x 10 in
$300
STAW8324
Print - Watercolor on paper
Plein Air Watercolor
10 x 14 in
$300
STAW8322
Print - Watercolor on paper
Plein Air Watercolor
10 x 14 in
$300
STAW8320
Print - Watercolor on paper
Plein Air Watercolor
14 x 10 in
$300
STAW8318
Print - Watercolor on paper
Plein Air Watercolor
14 x 10 in
$300
STAW8317
Print - Watercolor on paper
Plein Air Watercolor
11 x 14 in
$200
STAW8294
Print - Watercolor on paper
Plein Air Watercolor
11 x 14 in
$200
STAW8292
Print - Watercolor on paper
Plein Air Watercolor
11 x 14 in
$200
STAW8291
Print, 1987
Print - Watercolor on paper
Plein Air Watercolor
11 x 14 in
$200
STAW8290
Christopher James Hoffman Realistic Interiors (1-work)
Christopher James Hoffman self-portrait (1-work)
Christopher James Hoffman
Christopher James Hoffman Biography
Christopher James Hoffman b. 1966
- 1984 Graduated from Orono High School
- 1984-86 Bemidji State University - Fine Art
- 1986-87 University of Minnesota - Fine Art
- 1987-88 Colorado State University - Fort Collins - Fine Art
- 1988-89 University of Minnesota - Fine Art
The following entrepreneurial and art-related endeavors:
- Hopkins Fine Art - Hopkins, MN 1986-87 - Owner - Fine Art Gallery
- A Sandy Rhododendron - Sandy, Oregon 1990-2001 - Owner - Horticulture
- Project Alpha, Inc. - Portland, OR 1995-2001 - Founder - Web development
- Managed Artwork, Inc. Incline Village, NV - 2001- Current - Artist/Gallery Software
- Hoffman Art, llc, Buffalo, MN - 2014 - Current - Owner/Founder
- One Division Art, llc. Buffalo, MN - 2017 - Current - Owner/Founder
Christopher James Hoffman Statement
Forty-five years of painting and drawing have been a journey of removing "skill" from the artwork. I'm very conscious of making the work speak to me albeit listening to where the piece wants to go. Abstraction of vertical lines has been my most recent focus in which one of two things begins to surface... Landscape or Portrait. Having done literally thousands of Plein air watercolors and thousands of portraits of people that I've never met or drawn from, these two basic forms take shape without thinking. My interest is in uncovering the essence with as little skill as technically possible. I routinely paint/draw with either hand and even with my feet to remove the technical skill. I consider myself more of a medium... conduit to people and places but where the image becomes simply itself... without referring to any person or place... "self-referential". A recent quote that came to me in 2021... "Painters paint paintings that cameras can't capture".