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February 3, 2025

Light Shifting: Interview with Bruce Hoffman

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Brilliance in the Mundane is an exhibition curated in partnership with Park Towne Place. It features five artists, Kevin Broad, Sean Irwin, Bruce Hoffman, Warren Muller, and Gerri Spilka, who celebrate the beauty inherent in the everyday.

Bruce Hoffman is an artist, curator, and gallery director whose work involves a variety of materials and techniques. His paintings and sculptures are dynamic celebrations of color and light, inspired by the everyday.

What do you find inspiring about the everyday?

“Daily inspiration is most definitely light shifting. I fixate on singular objects/ architectural elements, facades, (usually mornings and evenings  often while on regional rail to or from work.). The trains move particularly awkwardly depending on the time of day, as Amtrak has the right a way through Philadelphia, the regional rail trains play a cat and mouse timing game, so one day I'll slowly pass a factor encased in graffiti, where the color and form and movement of the paint can be studied more clearly, next trip we could go 50 miles an hour past the same building. I ve filmed and photographed these places for over 13 years. I never am bored visiting and revisiting something that is to most, graffiti, abandoned structures. They pulse with life through my eyes.”

How did the COVID-19 pandemic influence your studio practice? Do these themes  carry through in your work today?

“I hadn't had studio practices for many years prior to COVID. Gallery Director, curating, writing and teaching became my art of practice. Covid sat me down and made me start creating again. It opened a freedom to materials, content, imagery and scale. It forced me to just make and not question each movement, color etc until something cohesive began to appear.”

What is important to you about color and light?

“Color and light and all incarnations of combining, reducing, saturating, shades, values, clarity, intensity. One does not exist without the other. Moods, emotions, colors can invoke memories, smells, taste. They can agitate to the point of physical reactions as well as relax one into dreams.”

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