Katherine Hofmann (b. 2000)
attended the Rhode Island School of Design, earning a BFA in Painting in 2023. She works as a mixed media watercolorist as well as in the sculptural mediums of kiln-cast glass and ceramics and views her sculptural work as extensions of her paintings. Hofmann is currently represented by OMSA Gallery in Fort Lauderdale Florida.
Artist Statement
The air was hot and laden with the smell of standing water and muck; the density pushed everything living into a hush. My pulse slowed to a sedated rhythm that mirrored the veiled black water. One foot in front of the other, sinking through the warm water down into the grasp of the brisk mud. The grasses grow and die, living off of their own rotting; the density of the Everglades reincarnates, interwoven to obscure all sound. Driving my material process of finding, burying, excavating, vitrifying, tangling, and detangling is my need to unearth my intangible memories expanding through painting and sculpture. Through intertwining images and a material language of my own, I am intent on listening closely to the landscape, encountering stillness and taking the time to hear it. I align myself between the permeable boundaries of the cerebral and tangible by mimicking the Earth’s art-making. The pigments suspend within shallow pools of water that evaporate to reveal the footprint of their flow, with water as the creative matrix, life animates itself in the material event of watercolor. Never fully knowable; we are nestled within vessels of memory that project into unknown landscapes to indulge in memories and recognize ourselves. I recall deeply the personal encounters and my bond to place, rhyming images as they absorb into each other, mapping through camouflage.
Connect with me to inquire about commissions and projects at ︎︎︎khofmann.studio@gmail.com