Christopher James Hoffman
Christopher James Hoffman Abstract (1-work)
Christopher James Hoffman Abstract Landscapes (1-work)
Christopher James Hoffman Functional (1-work)
Sculpture - found wood and rock
Functional
24 x 48 x 8 in
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Christopher James Hoffman NA (2-works)
Christopher James Hoffman Non-Referential (3-works)
Sculpture - found wood and rock
Non-Referential
24 x 24 x 1 in
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Sculpture - found wood and rock
Non-Referential
24 x 48 x 8 in
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Sculpture - found wood and rock
Non-Referential
12 x 12 x 36 in
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Christopher James Hoffman Plein Air Watercolor (1-work)
Christopher James Hoffman Portraits (2-works)
Christopher James Hoffman Referential (2-works)
Photography - found wood and rock
Referential
24 x 24 x 24 in
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Christopher James Hoffman self-portrait (3-works)
Christopher James Hoffman Still-life (4-works)
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".