Christopher James Hoffman
Christopher James Hoffman Portraits (8-works)
Painting - Mixed Media
Portraits
9 x 12 in
HOFC18533
Painting - Mixed Media
Portraits
12 x 9 in
HOFC18541
Christopher James Hoffman Seeing between the lines (25-works)
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Seeing between the lines
34-1/2 x 28 in
$1
HOFC18103
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Seeing between the lines
28 x 21-1/2 in
HOFC18100
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Seeing between the lines
28 x 34-1/2 in
$475
HOFC18098
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Seeing between the lines
28 x 34-5/8 in
$1,950 framed
HOFC18093
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Seeing between the lines
28 x 34-5/8 in
$1,950 framed
HOFC18092
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Seeing between the lines
12 x 16 in
$225 framed
HOFC18087
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Seeing between the lines
14-1/2 x 10-1/2 in
$225 framed
HOFC18086
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Seeing between the lines
20 x 16 in
$350 framed
HOFC18077
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Seeing between the lines
20 x 16 in
$350
HOFC18055
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Seeing between the lines
14 x 11 in
HOFC18056
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Seeing between the lines
21-1/2 x 28 in
HOFC18097
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Seeing between the lines
46 x 40 in
$3,600
HOFC18102
Painting - Oil on Canvas
Seeing between the lines
61-3/4 x 72-1/4 in
HOFC18094
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".