Christopher James Hoffman

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Christopher James Hoffman Abstract (1-work)
formatting

Christopher James Hoffman Lets Fuckin Rock
Let's Fuckin Rock, 2002
Print - Chalk on paper
Abstract
6 x 8.5 in
$125
HOFC17712

Christopher James Hoffman Three dimensional objects (3-works)
formatting

Christopher James Hoffman POW_DSC05170
POW_DSC05170, 2002
Wall-Reliefs - Oil on wood
Three dimensional objects
12 x 15 x 2 in
Call For Price
GABA8587
Christopher James Hoffman Copied work from Sean Scully
Copied work from Sean Scully, 2002
Wall-Reliefs - Oil on wood
Three dimensional objects
36 x 24 x 2.5 in
$2,500
GABA8585
Christopher James Hoffman Sultan-Scully inspired
Sultan-Scully inspired, 2002
Wall-Reliefs - Oil on wood
Three dimensional objects
12 x 12 x 3 in
$950
GABA8584

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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