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Camille Hoffman: Motherlands
Exhibition Guide

Camille Hoffman: Motherlands: Exhibition Guide

  • Show Statement

    Show Statement

    Camille Hoffman's Motherlands transforms the gallery's atrium into an immersive landscape and "womb." The Queens-based artist utilizes a paint palette of sienna, adobe, sandstone and the electric blue of Southwestern skies alongside scavenged materials from New York City and personal artifacts from New Mexico to generate intimate, site-specific experiences.

     

    In addition to commercial imagery of New Mexico, where Hoffman spent significant time in her formative years, the artist incorporates stock photography of tropical waves and fauna from the Phillipines, her ancestral home, and a photograph of her mother while pregnant with the artist.

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  • Camille Hoffman at Form & Concept Gallery

    A Note from the Artist

    Camille Hoffman
    While my work deals with belonging and ancestry and connecting back to the land, I'm also contending with the shifting identities of those who move between multiple lands. These mass-produced images and materials depict the majestic, pristine space we've romanticized, and also how we consume and commodify this land of supposed opportunity and manifest destiny. I question the deeper kind of debris of this history as a result of centuries of violence, erasure of Indigenous people and the kind of colonial legacy that extends from and far beyond the continental U.S.
  • On the symbolism

    On the symbolism

    As the artist spent time within what she described as the "womb" of the work, the installation evolved and a pattern emerged: the matmata, a diamond-like symbol of ancestral wisdom and natural abundance, which Hoffman first encountered while researching Yale University's renowned Southeast Asian Textiles Collection.
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  • Artworks

    • Camille Hoffman, Good Hands, 2017
      Camille Hoffman, Good Hands, 2017
    • Camille Hoffman, If It Wasn't Your Teeth, 2018
      Camille Hoffman, If It Wasn't Your Teeth, 2018
      $ 4,750.00
    • Camille Hoffman, a.m., 2019
      Camille Hoffman, a.m., 2019
      $ 3,000.00
    • Camille Hoffman, Hatch, 2019
      Camille Hoffman, Hatch, 2019
      $ 2,500.00
    • Camille Hoffman, Peak, 2019
      Camille Hoffman, Peak, 2019
      $ 5,000.00
    • Camille Hoffman, Everywhere I want to See, 2016
      Camille Hoffman, Everywhere I want to See, 2016
      $ 4,200.00
  • In Process

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  • Camille Hoffman and R. Melinda Hoffman at Form & Concept Gallery
    The artist (right) with her mother, R. Melinda Hoffman.

    About the artist

    Camille Hoffman (b. 1987, Chicago, IL) draws from the Phillipine weaving and storytelling traditions of her ancestors, along with traditional landscape painting techniques from her academic training, to reveal seamless yet textured transcultural contradictions.

     

    Hoffman earned an MFA from Yale University (2015), a BFA from California College of the Arts (2009), and was a recipient of the Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize for excellence in painting from Yale University, a National Endowment for the Arts scholarship, a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, and the Van Lier Fellowship from the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD). She has exhibited her work throughout the United States and Europe, and has been featured in publications including Art in America and The New Yorker. She currently lives and works in New York and teaches at The Cooper Union and Yale University.

 

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