About the Exhibit
Welcome to Ira Hoffecker’s “Imagined Landscapes”, a series of oil paintings that explore the amalgamation of abstraction and representation of plant-inspired subjects within imagined habitats as liminal spaces.
Hoffecker is a German-Canadian visual artist who resides and maintains her art practice in both Victoria, Canada and New York, USA. She is a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists.
“My paintings extend organic shapes within abstracted spaces and imagined landscapes, playing with depth, line and colour. Organic material analysis and interpretation became part of my exploration process. I work with oil paint as I use organic imagery as inspiration; oil paint has a very different application regime than acrylic paint and can be worked with longer, allowing me to create subtle gradations. Colour impacts how I integrate organic ideas with abstract shapes on canvas. During my years of studying fine art, I engaged in purposeful colour theory research. My approach to colour is influenced by colour masters and theorists such as Johannes Itten, Josef Albers and Johann Goethe. 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.”
