Ira Hoffecker
1965
Hof, Germany
Hof, Germany
6 Works exhibited on Kooness
Current location
Victoria, British Columbia
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Works by Ira Hoffecker
Ira Hoffecker is a German-Canadian artist, emigrating from Germany to Canada in 2004 and now a Canadian citizen. She resides and maintains her art practice in Victoria, Canada and New York, USA, and is an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists.
“I am interested in the amalgamation of abstraction and representation of plant-inspired subjects within imagined habitats as liminal spaces. My paintings extend organic shapes within abstracted spaces and imagined landscapes that play with depth, lines and layers. Organic material analysis and interpretation became part of my exploration process. I am working with oil paintings as I use organic imagery as inspiration. Oil paint has a very different application regime than acrylic paint and can be worked with for much longer, allowing me to create subtle gradations. Colour impacts how I integrate organic ideas with abstract shapes on the canvas. During my years of studying fine art, I engaged in purposeful colour theory research. My approach to colour is influenced by colour master and theorists like Itten, Albers, Goethe and others. I work with flatness and depth both in my shape development and the paintings’ spatial components. The colour-shape decisions energize and further the paintings’ overall compositions.”
Hoffecker holds a Master of Fine Arts (2018) from Plymouth University (England) and Transart Institute, New York (USA) and a first-class Bachelor (Honours) in Fine Art (2015) from the University of Gloucestershire (England). She previously obtained a Diploma of Fine Arts (2013) from Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria (Canada). Her work has been exhibited in solo, duo and group exhibitions in Germany, England and Canada.
In 2015, Hoffecker was one of 20 graduates whose work was shortlisted for the Graduate Art Prize in London (England). She won the first prize in the juried ‘Abstract Show 2015’ in Vancouver (Canada) with her painting “Alexanderplatz VIII”. Her “Camp Moschendorf II” painting was shortlisted for the British John Moore Painting Prize 2016. The painting was also exhibited in 2016 Liverpool Biennial (England).
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