Category Archives: Denver

Ortolan. And twenty-something more.

Posted on May 20, 2014 | Leave a comment

I have been making stuff steadily, but have not been good at blogging about it. “Ortolan,” oil on canvas board, 7″ x 5″. “Susan’s Flowers,” watercolor, 16″ x 12″ “The Yellow Blanket,” oil on canvas, 6″ x 6″ “Horse of a Different Color,” watercolor, 14″ x 20″ “Coneflowers,” watercolor, 10″ x 7″ “Screaming Blue House,” oil on wood, 4″ x 4″ SOLD “Silo,” oil on wood, 4″ x 4″ SOLD “The House That Jack Built II,” oil on canvas, 5″ x 5″ SOLD “The House That Jack Built,” oil on wood, 4″ x 4″ SOLD “Owl with Creamsicle Moon,” watercolor, 13″ x 19″ SOLD “Prairie Chicken,” oil on canvas board, 7″ x 5″ “Flying Apples,” watercolor, 7″ x “10 “Poppies,” watercolor, 10″ x 7″ “Poppies II,” watercolor, 20″ x 14″ SOLD “The Fear,” oil on canvas, 5″ x 5″ “The Impure Thought,” oil on canvas board, 7″ x 5″ “Fern,” 6″ x 6″, oil on canvas SOLD “FlowerBabyBug,” oil on canvas board, 7″ x 5″ SOLD “One Lousy Lobster,” watercolor, 13″ x 19″ Plus a bunch of watercolors of owls. I think the one above has sold… my record keeping has much room for improvement. And a watercolor peacock “Mayflower Lion,” watercolor SOLD “Goldfish,” watercolor “Artichokes,” watercolor

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Tagged Christine McVie, ortolan, pain and song, songbird, tiny paintings, watercolors

Heart & Soul

Posted on February 14, 2014 | Leave a comment

“Heart & Soul,” new paintings by Katie Hoffman & Lance Green at Valkarie Gallery, is now up and open and there will be a reception tomorrow from 5 to 10 PM. I did send out postcards but apparently too late. Since my mom didn’t receive one, it’s a sure bet nobody else did either. (Finding postcard stamps was an ordeal.)

If you are one of the 2 or 3 people who reads this blog, please know that you are invited and I would be delighted to see you there tomorrow evening.

Even if you don’t read this blog, I hope you come and I would love to see you.

We will also be there on the First Friday in March if you can’t make it tomorrow, and there may still be wine and cheese available.

This show runs through March 9 and the open hours are as follows:

Wednesdays 10 – 3 & 4 – 7

Thursdays & Fridays noon – 7

Saturdays noon – 6

Sundays noon – 10

Plus we are open on the first Friday of the month (that will be March 7 for this show) from noon – 10.

Happy Valentines Day.

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Tagged Belmar, Heart & Soul, Katie Hoffman, Lakewood Colorado, love song, valentine, ValKarie Gallery, Vashti Bunyan

Here I am

Posted on January 18, 2014 | Leave a comment

Covered in paint and quite busy.

I am mostly preparing for “Heart & Soul,”an upcoming show at Valkarie Gallery in Lakewood, Colorado.

This show will run from February 12 until March 9, with an opening reception on Saturday, February 15 from 5 to 10 plus Belmar Block 7’s First Friday Art Walk reception on March 7 from 6 to 9. Valkarie is located at 445 S. Saulbury St., Lakewood, CO 80226. Regular open hours are Wednesdays 10-3 & 4-7, Thursdays & Fridays 12-7, Saturdays 12-6 and Sundays 12-5. Open on First Fridays from 12-10.

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I will be participating in Artma, an auction to raise funds for pediatric cancer research, once again this year. I have donated “Alistair the Fierce Bad Cat,” shown below. This happens on February 8 from 6 to 10 at a brand new location- the 1st Bank Center at 11450 Broomfield Lane, Broomfield, CO 80021.

And, I have been invited to participate in Westword’s Artopia 2014. This will be happening on Saturday, February 22, from 7 PM until 2 AM.

Below are a couple of newly finished paintings. Hoping to finish several more in the next two weeks. We’ll see.

“yes & his heart was pounding,” oil on wood, 9″ x 12″

“In the Belly of a Dream,” oil on canvas, 8″ x 8″

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Tagged Artma 2014, Artopia 2014, Devorador de Corazones, Heart & Soul, Here I Am, In the Belly of a Dream, Katie Hoffman, Rosie Thomas & Sufjan Stevens, ValKarie Gallery, Westword, When I am in the Ground and Dream of You Still, yes and his heart was pounding

Hunter’s Moon

Posted on November 2, 2013 | Leave a comment

Oil on canvas board, 7″ x 5″

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Tagged Fading All Away, Hunter's Moon, Jay Reatard, Katie Hoffman, nightmares

Imaginary Friends and a busy November

Posted on October 31, 2013 | Leave a comment

“The Imaginary Friends,” 5″ x 7″, oil on canvas board

“Valkyrie,” 5″ x 7″, oil on canvas board

“October’s Ghosts,” 7″ x 5″, oil on canvas board

“Mistake,” 7″ x 5″, oil on canvas board

I will have some of these tiny paintings available at Fresh Art Studio #F this First Friday in November, for very affordable prices.

First Friday will be a busy one.

I am happy to announce a new affiliation with ValKarie Gallery in Lakewood, Colorado. I’ll have work in their inaugural show which opens November 1 and runs through January 12. Opening reception is this Friday, November 1 from 5 to 9 PM.

I’ll have some work in the inaugural exhibit at Helikon Gallery & Studios, as well. This stunning new space has been called the “Jewel of RiNo” (RiNo being Denver’s River North Art District), for good reason. This show also has a reception on Friday November 1, and runs through November 30.

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Tagged Chasing Ghosts, First Fridays on Santa Fe, Fresh Art Studios, Helikon Gallery & Studios, Imaginary Friend, Katie Hoffman, ValKarie Gallery

And now the end is near

Posted on October 2, 2013 | 2 comments

I close the show I share with Christopher Fox at Zip 37 Gallery this Sunday October 6 at 5 PM. It’s a nice show, and if you are local I hope you stop by Friday (First Friday!) 6-10, or Saturday or Sunday noon to 5 to see Christopher’s beautiful paintings, if nothing else.

Here is Chris hanging the work a couple weeks ago:

And here he is in my mind-bogglingly accurate portrait of him:

Westword‘s Susan Froyd was kind enough to ask me for a 100 Colorado Creatives Interview before the show opened a couple weeks ago. That can be found here.

I’ve been with Zip 37 Gallery for seven years. Moving on feels like leaving the family home. I’ll stop here, before I get verklempt.

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Tagged Christopher Fox, I Did it My Way, Katie Hoffman, Sid Vicious, Zip 37 Gallery

Sadness is a Siren

Posted on September 16, 2013 | Leave a comment

Oil on canvas, 30″ x 24″

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Tagged Cocteau Twins, Katie Hoffman, Sadness is a Siren, Song to the Siren

A Cracked Kettle

Posted on September 9, 2013 | Leave a comment

Oil on canvas, 20″ x 16″.

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Tagged A Cracked Kettle, Anthem, flaubert, Julie Christensen, Leonard Cohen, Perla Batalla, that's how the light gets in

Frightened Rabbit

Posted on September 8, 2013 | Leave a comment

Oil on canvas, 16″ x 20″

Feverishly painting now in preparation for my final show at Zip 37 Gallery, which opens September 20. I will be showing with Christopher Fox. If you haven’t seen Christopher’s work, you don’t know what you’re missing. Come. Treat yourself.

Press release pasted below:

New Paintings & a Last Hurrah for Hoffman & Fox

Katie Hoffman & Christopher Fox will be showing new paintngs at Zip 37 Gallery in Denver from September 20 until October 6, with an opening reception on Friday September 20 from 6 PM until 10 PM.

This will be the last of Hoffman’s 7 year run of annual shows at Zip 37. While sad to leave the gallery, she is excited that Fox, a painter whose work she has long admired, accepted her invitation to show togther. Fox has created a brand new body of work specifically for this show and expects it may the final appearance of his work in the Denver area.

Hoffman and Fox share a fascination for non traditional methods of paint application and a melding of abstraction with representational imagery. Fox’s work is characterized by “an aggressively abstract foundation overlaid with carefully rendered subjects as a floating film. Foundations are painted using tools like garden rakes, turkey basters, credit cards or bamboo skewers. Imagery is then painstakingly added over the course of several months as the story of each piece develops.” A self-taught artist, Fox currently works in acrylics n canvas or wood.

Hoffman begins her paintings “with a nonobjective under-painting and no preconceptions but texture and color to enter into a dialogue with the paint itself.The paintings are returned to over a period of weeks or months, as more layers of oil paint, wax, and various media are added and some areas are abraded or scraped down to reveal earlier layers, in a mimicry of fragmented memory and experience residing in an invented space. She brings recognizable imagery to the surface if it suggests itself during the process, but attempts to retain some of the ambiguity of the original vision.” Hoffman has a BFA from MSUD.

Zip 37 gallery is open Fridays 6 to 10 PM, Saturdays and Sundays noon to 5, nd by appointment. For more information, contact katiehoffman65@msn.com, call 303 881 5796, or visit http://www.katiehoffman.com