We invite you to view art February 29-March 30, Thursdays through Sundays, from 12-5 pm. An artists’ reception will be held 3-5 pm on March 2 during which the artists will speak about their work and answer questions. The not-for-profit Hoffman Center for the Arts is located at 594 Laneda Avenue, Manzanita, Oregon.
Keri Rosebraugh, an Oregon native, is a multimedia visual artist whose work seeks connections between humans and examines how those parallel our relationship with the environment. She collaborates with water to create one of a kind drawings, monoprints, paintings, installations, videos, and sculptures. Rosebraugh brings to the Hoffman Gallery Future Memoirs of Water, a show that delves into the profound interdependence between humanity and water. Rosebraugh’s body of work explores the captivating concept that water retains memory, sparking a transformative dialogue on the inherent connection between human existence and this fluid element. The pieces featured in this exhibition draw inspiration from impactful locales and resources that have surrounded the artist in recent years. Through artistic research, the artist keenly observes water, observing its ability to echo and mirror the life surrounding it. Rosebraugh posits that water serves as a potent portal bridging the realms of the tangible and the intangible, celebrating the profound unity that binds us all.
Anna Daedalus is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice spans photography, installation and book arts. Daedalus lives and works perched above a Sitka spruce swamp near the mouth of the Columbia River in Wahkiakum County, Washington. Daedalus will show Enfolded in the Hoffman Gallery, a photographic-based series which employs folding, sculpting and re-photographing to mimic the sheltering concavity of riparian hollows, wetland and woodland. This work revels in the delicate materiality of paper and takes an embodied approach in responding to the enveloping plenitude and multiplicity of the living world. In a dialogue with the history of landscape art and photography, Daedalus has eschewed dramatic scenes in favor of quiet settings, and used layering and hands-on molding to fashion a fluid perspective that allows space for contemplation. Drawing on deep ecology and phenomenology, the pieces are meant to invoke a restfully attentive and intimate embrace with nature.