Christopher James Hoffman

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Christopher James Hoffman Abstract (18-works)
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Christopher James Hoffman POC_X91_DSC05103
POC_X91_DSC05103, 1992
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Abstract
Call For Price
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Christopher James Hoffman POC_X90_DSC05102
POC_X90_DSC05102, 1992
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Abstract
Call For Price
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Christopher James Hoffman POC_X89_DSC05174
POC_X89_DSC05174, 1992
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Abstract
Call For Price
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Christopher James Hoffman POC_X88_DSC05104
POC_X88_DSC05104, 1992
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Abstract
Call For Price
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Christopher James Hoffman POC_X86_DSC05180
POC_X86_DSC05180, 1992
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Abstract
Call For Price
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Christopher James Hoffman POC_X81_DSC05113
POC_X81_DSC05113, 1992
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Abstract
Call For Price
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Christopher James Hoffman POC_X80_DSC05098
POC_X80_DSC05098, 1992
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Abstract
Call For Price
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Christopher James Hoffman POC_X78_DSC05100
POC_X78_DSC05100, 1992
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Abstract
Call For Price
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Christopher James Hoffman POC_X77_DSC05099
POC_X77_DSC05099, 1992
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Abstract
Call For Price
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Christopher James Hoffman POC_X50_DSC05010
POC_X50_DSC05010, 1992
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Abstract
Call For Price
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Christopher James Hoffman POC_DSC05278
POC_DSC05278, 1992
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Abstract
Call For Price
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Christopher James Hoffman POC_DSC05117
POC_DSC05117, 1992
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Abstract
Call For Price
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Christopher James Hoffman POC_DSC05116
POC_DSC05116, 1992
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Abstract
Call For Price
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Christopher James Hoffman POC_DSC05115
POC_DSC05115, 1992
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Abstract
Call For Price
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Christopher James Hoffman POC_DSC04976
POC_DSC04976, 1992
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Abstract
Call For Price
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Christopher James Hoffman POC_DSC04971
POC_DSC04971, 1992
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Abstract
Call For Price
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Christopher James Hoffman POC_DSC04970
POC_DSC04970, 1992
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Abstract
60 x 40 in
$2,500
BLES8657
Christopher James Hoffman POC_DSC04854
POC_DSC04854, 1992
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Abstract
Call For Price
BLES8620

Christopher James Hoffman

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".

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