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Completed
2023
Medium
cardboard, packaging, wood, felt, textile
Dimensions
35"x 30"x 8"
Cost
$6,000
Description
For many decades, my work has operated in the area between discrete object and installation. My materials have always been the overlooked ephemera of our daily lives. Seeking means of combining content with color and scale, I have employed a myriad of domestic multiples, such as: zippers, buttons, thread, clothes, shower curtains, drinking straws, and paper, most recently, vintage decks of cards. Since 2004, my focus has been on large-scale mural installations and wall reliefs, intentionally highlighting the indigenous color and nature of all manner of disposable materials. I collect recycled and disposed packages, I buy discounted, unused consumer waste and leftovers. I now also buy acrylic felt made for craft projects and scraps. All of it, with mad color. The collecting, sorting, and cutting is a search for an esthetic beauty in the gross abundance of product. By reducing it to tiny elements, I can extract it from its marketed use and adapt it to my own use as building blocks, my own intense bounty of color and pattern. I am layering constructions on top of constructions and finding that the more I push that, the pattern density gives way to an almost all over field, a hyper color cacophony. Along the way, my card collages have emerged. I have been collecting vintage decks of cards, like their cousin, matchbooks, they have been part of our Americana experience; colorful, romantic, promotional, and just odd and can be spotted on most desks or bookshelves. One of the last analog advertising gimmicks, they are, and were, handed out freely by companies and included in games galore. As I swiped them into an arc, I suddenly saw them as abstract elements, rhythmically repeating, they arc and sway, obfuscating the whole and highlighting obscure details. In many ways, a miniaturization of my much larger murals.
About this Artist
Lisa Hoke
Lisa Hoke has exhibited Nationally and Internationally, notably at The McNay Museum, TX, Whitney Museum @Equitable Center, NY, Memphis Brooks Museum, TN; Sarasota Museum of Art, FL; Oklahoma City Museum, OK; Rice University Gallery, TX, The New Britain Museum, CT; MASS MoCA, MA; Aldrich Museum, CT; Serpentine Gallery, UK; Corcoran Gallery of Art, DC; and North Carolina Museum of Art, NC among others. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, Arts, ARTnews, Sculpture Magazine, Tema Celeste, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, The London Times, New Art Examiner and BOMB among others. Hoke’s work is included numerous public collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, NY; New Orleans Museum of Art, LA; the National Academy of Design; and the New York Public Library, among others. In 2018, Hoke was commissioned by Nuvola Lavazza to create…
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