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Where were you?

Posted on February 10, 2015 | 2 comments

http://http://youtu.be/SpFvqibrURk I haven’t much been here lately, but it has been a busy beginning to 2015. I was excited to participate in The Art of Winter exhibit at the invitation of Jennifer Mosquera. I had a blast painting my snowboard piece, which was displayed at DIA. I was flattered to be asked to show at Valkarie Gallery as a guest artist in the Resident Artists’ Gallery, at the invitation of Valerie Saverie. I’ll have 3 of my new paintings from the House that Jack Built series there through March 1. I am thrilled to have had “Because it is Bitter” accepted into Core New Art Space‘s national show, “Losing Love.” This show was juried by Niza Knoll, opens this Friday February 13 and runs through March 1. I have recently opened an Etsy Shop for my watercolors and small oils and have been immersed in trying to learn what the heck I’m doing there. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new Latin conjugations? At least, you can try. My shop is here. And finally, I’ve been remaking my website. The software I’ve been using for almost ten years is obsolete, so I was forced into a long-overdue rehaul. You can see the site, katiehoffman.com, here. It is still a work in progress but I’m having fun learning about Sandvox and what I can do with it. I hope your 2015 is off to a good start, wherever you are. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpFvqibrURk

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Dear Katie

Posted on January 15, 2015 | Leave a comment

You suck.

Still.

Sincerely,

The Cherry Creek Arts Festival.

Back at ya CCAF

Now here are some cats and a spark of hope!

Love, Katie

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Happy Holidays

Posted on December 8, 2014 | 2 comments

From all of me to all of you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qLuxExl-Mk

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Tagged A Partridge in a Pear Tree, Dolly, Hard Candy Christmas, relief prints, RuPaul

The House That Jack Built Burns to the Cursed Ground

Posted on November 8, 2014 | Leave a comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=benBtqMSqq8

Not really. But it does close at Core New Art Space tomorrow at 4 PM.

Those paintings will be showing their selves in my studio after that.

They are:

This is the House that Jack Built

oil on canvas, 30″ x 30″, $935

This is the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built

oil on canvas, 24″ x 24″, $750

This is the Rat who Drank the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built

oil on canvas, 30″ x 30″, $935

This is the Cat who Killed the Rat who Drank the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built

oil on canvas, 30″ x 30″, $935

This is the Dog who Worried the Cat who Killed the Rat that Drank the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built

oil on canvas, 24″ x 24″, $750

This is the Cow with the Crumpled Horn who Tossed the Dog who Worried the Cat who Killed the Rat who Drank the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built

oil on canvas, 24″ x 24″, $750

This is the Maiden All Forlorn who Milked the Cow with the Crumpled Horn who Tossed the Dog who Worried the Cat who Killed the Rat who Drank the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built

oil on canvas, 30″ x 30″, $935

This is the Man All Tattered and Torn who Kissed the Maiden All Forlorn who Milked the Cow with the Crumpled Horn who Tossed the Dog who Worried the Cat who Killed the Rat who Drank the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built

oil on canvas, 30″ x 30″, $935

This is the Priest all Shaven and Shorn who Married the Man all Tattered and Torn who Kissed the Maiden All Forlorn who Milked the Cow with the Crumpled Horn who Tossed the Dog who Worried the Cat who Killed the Rat who Drank the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built

This is the Cock that Crowed in the Morn and Waked the Priest all Shaven and Shorn who Married the Man all Tattered and Torn who Kissed the Maiden All Forlorn who Milked the Cow with the Crumpled Horn who Tossed the Dog who Worried the Cat who Killed the Rat who Drank the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built

oil on canvas, 24″ x 24″, $750

This is the Farmer Sowing her Corn that Kept the Cock that Crowed in the Morn and Waked the Priest all Shaven and Shorn who Married the Man all Tattered and Torn who Kissed the Maiden all Forlorn who Milked the Cow with the Crumpled Horn who Tossed the Dog who Worried the Cat who Killed the Rat who Drank the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built

oil on canvas, 30″ x 30″, $935

This is the Horse and the Hound and the Horn that Belonged to the Farmer Sowing her Corn that Kept the Cock who Crowed in the Morn and Waked the Priest all Shaven and Shorn who Married the Man all Tattered and Torn who Kissed the Maiden all Forlorn who Milked the Cow with the Crumpled Horn who Tossed the Dog who Worried the Cat who Killed the Rat who Drank the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built

oil on canvas, 30″ x 30″, $935

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This is the Cat who Killed the Rat

Posted on October 5, 2014 | Leave a comment

Oil on canvas, 30″ x 30″

The Cat is complete. Now I am just over half-finished with the twelve new paintings for “The House that Jack Built,” opening at Core New Art Space on October 23 with a reception on Friday, October 24 from 6 to 9 PM.

Here is The Dog who Worried the Cat who Killed the Rat who Drank the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack built, now finished:

And this is the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built, oil on canvas, 24″ x 24″:

And here is The Maiden All Forlorn who Milked the Cow with the Crumpled Horn who Tossed the Dog who Worried the Cat who Killed the Rat who Drank the Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built:

I have 5 more paintings to finish, and some long nights ahead of me.

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Tagged Cat Duet, choir boys, Katie Hoffman, Pearsall, Rossini, The Cat who Killed the Rat, The Dog who Worried the Cat, The House that Jack Built, The Maiden all Forlorn, The Malt that Lay in the House that Jack Built

Guilty

Posted on September 4, 2014 | 3 comments

I am stupid as the day is long when it comes to legal matters. Other things as well, most likely.

The cry-face may take a while to subside.

I thought dog court would be not a big deal this morning – my dog busted through the screen door and barked at & scared people (he has never, ever bitten anyone) – but I was wrong. I pled guilty but probably should have sought counsel. Must get over my fear of lawyers.

I took both dogs for a walk in the rain tonight and they were good as gold.

I love my dogs. The thought of any harm coming to them causes me a lot of distress.

Also, here are some new paintings.

The first, most pertinent one is not quite finished but almost there.

WIP “This is the Dog who Worried the Cat”

This is the Cow with the Crumpled Horn

This is the Cock that Crowed in the Morn

This is the House that Jack Built

Here are a couple tiny ones that I will have available in my studio this First Friday:

“Scaredycat”

oil on canvas, 6″ x 6″

Also, I am tremendously pleased to have a painted skateboard now showing at the wonderful Valkarie Gallery, just west of Denver.

The title is “Devil Does your Dog Bite.”

I may be a devil but my dog does not bite. Truly.

No child, no.

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Sticking around

Posted on July 17, 2014 | Leave a comment

for this shit. Another day.

“The Optimist,” oil on canvas board, 7″ x 5″.

Oil on canvas board, 7″ x 5″

“Firefly #2,” oil on canvas board, 7″ x 5″

“Locusts (living in 3:4 time)” oil on canvas, 6″ x 6″

“Beach Hut,” oil on wood, 4″ x 4″

“Little Pink House,” oil on wood, 4″ x 4″

“Stormy Weather,” oil on canvas board, 8″ x 10″

I am trying.

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Bluish Blue Wish/Holy Moly, it’s Third Friday.

Posted on June 18, 2014 | Leave a comment

I am just delighted to have had two paintings (pictured below) accepted into “Holy Moly- Religious Commentary in Contemporary Art,” an exhibit opening this Friday June 20 at Niza Knoll Gallery in Denver. The show will run from June 20 through July 26.

“Wedding at Cana” 18″ x 18″, oil on canvas, $575

“Prodigal,” 30″ x 24″, $825

I will also have my studio open this Friday through the modern miracle of cloning (or maybe just a very nice husband who has agreed to sit the studio while I pop out briefly to the Holy Moly opening), so if you are in the neighborhood or perhaps already in the same Fresh Art Building, visiting the opening reception of Rolf Helland and Earl Chuvarsky at CORE New Art Space, please come in and say hi!

Also here is the last little painting I have finished. “Blue Wish,” oil on canvas, 8″ x 8″. It’s about time for me to get serious and start sinking my teeth into some bigger canvas in preparation for my fall show.

The Blue Wish, 8″ x 8″, oil on canvas, $135

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Tagged Fresh Art Studios, Holy Moly, Niza Knoll Gallery, Oh God, Sufjan Stevens, Third Friday on Santa Fe, Where Are You Now

Summer Art Market- Heloise & Abelard- She’s out of my Life

Posted on June 13, 2014 | 2 comments

On this Friday the thirteenth I have a spate of undeserved good luck to reflect on. The Summer Art Market at the Art Students’ League of Denver was better to me than it has ever been. (Until the deluge hit Sunday and we discovered that the EZ-Up leaks. But we survived that with minimal damage.)

Remarkably, I sold my Heloise and Abelard there,

to a terrific couple. Funny, smart, kind people who love her.

I am so grateful that someone loved her enough to want to own her. I am also grateful for the sorely needed money. But, weirdly, I will miss having her around. Never felt quite so attached to a painting. Hm. Onward and upward. Hopefully I will eventually make a painting that will make me forget all about that one. Or maybe not forget but just move on. You know.

I’m not only pining and crying and navel gazing these days (though I do all of that so well). I do have stuff going on. I’m working on a mask for the Denver Hospice’s Mask Project that is almost done. I’ll be delivering it next week. Almost done shot below:

I’ve been invited by the fantastically gifted ceramicist Pat Cronin to show in the “Creatures” exhibit at Zip 37 Gallery. I have been thinking hard about Rat Kings but have not yet started one. I think/hope/believe I will have new work to show.

And I am thinking about my fall show at Core New Art Space. Some canvases are stretched and prepped, and ideas are fermenting. I believe it will be called “The House that Jack Built.” I have been thinking lately about the concept of home and the structures that can serve as the places we dwell.

Wishing a very lucky Friday the 13th to you all.

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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