Ira Hoffecker | Visual Artist

IRA HOFFECKER

VISUAL ARTIST

IRA HOFFECKER

VISUAL ARTIST

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I am a German-Canadian visual artist. Victoria, Canada is where I maintain my art practice and started my art studies in 2005. In the meantime I have achieved a Diploma of Fine Arts, BFA and MFA.

A few years ago I started to paint flowers and plants in oil paint and brought organic shapes into my compositions of geometric structures and architectural elements. Some of these paintings extended beyond individual plant studies and became landscapes. The shapes and colours of flowers and plants bring me a sense of joy and wholeness

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Master of Fine Arts work

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Urban Settings

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Artist Statement

A few years ago I started to paint flowers from my summer flower garden and plants I encountered during my daily walks in oil paint and brought organic shapes into my compositions of geometric structures and architectural elements.

transitions

Transitions took place at Fortune Gallery during the month of May 2021

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recent exhibitions

transitions

Transitions took place at Fortune Gallery during the month of May 2021.

news & Media

And here an article and interview in the most recent April/May 2021 edition of BOULEVARD MAGAZINE by Sean McIntyre with photos by Lia Crowe

CAMP MOSCHENDORF II has been shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize at the Liverpool Biennale 2016

Exhibition at the Walker Art Museum

Solo exhibition at The Front Gallery in Edmonton

Ira Hoffecker’s paintings speak for themselves. Confident and decisive, they are both decorative and contemplative. For now, I'll leave it to you to see why so many people find them deeply satisfying...

A fantastic colourist - her canvases glow with a mix of primary and pastel tones - Hoffecker manages the tricky feat of being both intellectual and playful via paintings that combine vivid colour fields with decorative patches and textures.

Softly blended images of glowing, anomalous leaf forms, provide touchstones of comfort in an otherwise bewildering maze of human activity and experience.