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.
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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