Lisa Hoke, "Round Up"

Description

Lisa Hoke, "Round Up"
16 x 12 x 1.75 inches
Felt, cards, wood, packaging

Artist Bio: Lisa Hoke received her BA from The University of NC at Greensboro and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, VA. She has been awarded a Purchase Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY; a Joan Mitchell Grant; The Edwin Austin Abbey Fellowship, NY; and an SECCA Award in the Visual Arts, NC. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Hoke's work is in many public collections, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, NY; and The New Orleans Museum of Art, LA.

Artist Statement: Lisa Hoke's work operates in the slippage between discrete objects and installations, utilizing materials extracted from recycled packaging and disposable ephemera. Since 2004, she has focused on large-scale mural installations and wall reliefs emphasizing the intensely synthetic color and texture of various disposable materials. She collects, reshapes, and arranges these materials, augmenting them with acrylic felt scraps, all organized around highly keyed and saturated colors. Layers upon layers are constructed to create a patterned density, contributing to a visual field of cacophony.