Jeanne Hoffman Drift Acrylic on board with wood and stoneware 118h x 116w x 41d cm R 35,000
In ‘Drift’, multidisciplinary artist Jeanne Hoffman draws together paintings, drawings, ceramic pieces and wooden structures to create dialogue and movement between incongruous objects – the individual pieces each functioning as collected impressions of an assemblage.
“Drift” is both verb and noun, both continuous movement and accumulated object. It speaks of the tension between motion and stillness inherent in assemblage – the process or movement of being formed, of “becoming”, which inhabits – though nomadically – the spaces and relationships between discrete elements of the work. In "becoming", one piece is drawn into the territory of another, changing its value as an element and bringing about an unexpected unity. The life of the work itself is in the “intermezzo” (Deleuze).
“Drift” is also the literal translation of the French “dérive" – Guy-Debord’s psychogeographical concept describing an unplanned journey, where one allows oneself to be drawn (both consciously and not) through a landscape, through disparate environments, by various geographical attractions and influences.
Hoffman’s ceramic objects function like co-ordinates on this landscape, legible references pointing to relational meaning as yet unarticulated. The materiality of the clay – its plasticity and solidity – carries her conceptual concerns, the interdependent dualities of becoming/disintegrating, space/place and room/object. These considerations are similarly described in the irregular edges of paintings, which interrogate the limits of the object and the room/object border.
‘Drift’ is ultimately a notion and gesture that invites both artist and viewer to travel within the space, between works, enabling a re-view of one’s position – emotionally, socially, politically – within a particular geographical locality.
Working across diverse mediums and far-flung geographies, Jeanne Hoffman (b. 1978) revels in the spaces between. Paintings, drawings and ceramic objects function as dwelling points – “temporary shelters for thoughts” – as she explores the emotional and socio-cultural dimensions of place. Hoffman states: “There is a direct correlation between travelling across a landscape and the path of a graphic mark that transforms a blank page into an imaginary space.” “Drawing” translates thus not only to three-dimensional artistic mediums and physical space, but also to a larger “stage”’: Referential forms are assembled in relation with one another, creating movement, dialogue and meaning on the fringes of delineation. This posits reality as a collage of the attractions of the terrain.
Hoffman has held numerous solo and group exhibitions, both locally and abroad, and has participated in residencies in Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland and South Africa.
Jeanne Hoffman Detail from Drift
Jeanne Hoffman A calculated stab in the dark Acrylic on board 50h x 35w cm R 6,000
Jeanne Hoffman Untitled 9 Stoneware 35.50h x 40.50w x 1.50d cm R5,500
Jeanne Hoffman Map Acrylic on board 85h x 65w cm R 12,000
Jeanne Hoffman Untitled 15 Stoneware 20h x 16.50w x 17d cm R 7,000
Jeanne Hoffman Field position Acrylic on board 83h x 120w cm R 25,000
Jeanne Hoffman Untitled 12 Stoneware 51h x 43w x 34d cm R 25,000
Jeanne Hoffman Untitled 13 Stoneware 16.50h x 22.50w x 33.50d cm R 7,000
Jeanne Hoffman Field/distraction Acrylic on board 80h x 100w cm R 20,000
Jeanne Hoffman Untitled 2 Stoneware 29h x 17w x 14d cm R 12,000
Jeanne Hoffman Private oceans Acrylic on board & pink ivory 60.50h x 50w cm R 10,000
Jeanne Hoffman Sampler Acrylic on board 38h x 30w cm R 5,200
Jeanne Hoffman Untitled 3 Stoneware 45h x 14w x 16.50d cm R 12,000
Jeanne Hoffman Untitled 4 Stoneware 33.50h x 23w x 16.50d cm R12,000
Jeanne Hoffman Sinister in sequins Acrylic on board 35h x 50w cm R 6,000
Jeanne Hoffman Untitled 16 Stoneware 12.50h x 15w x 6.50d cm R 2,000
Jeanne Hoffman Untitled 10 Stoneware 25h x 52.50w x 24.50d cm R 12,000
Jeanne Hoffman Some kind of internal mental event fairly close to 'green' Acrylic on board & found copper 60.50h x 50w cm R 10,000
Jeanne Hoffman Untitled 7 Stoneware 26h x 29w x 18.50d cm R12,000
Jeanne Hoffman Stage Acrylic on board 100h x 85w cm R 20,000
Jeanne Hoffman Untitled 6 Stoneware 32.50h x 39w x 23d cm R12,000
Jeanne Hoffman Things seen out of the corner of your eye Acrylic on board 170h x 230w cm R 51,500
Jeanne Hoffman Untitled 11 Stoneware 39.50h x 15w x 17d cm R 12,000
Jeanne Hoffman Untitled 8 Stoneware 47h x 19w x 19d cm R12,000
Jeanne Hoffman Two horizons Acrylic on board & imbuia 60.50h x 50w cm R 10,000
Jeanne Hoffman Untitled 1 Stoneware 43h x 25w x 22d cm R 20,000
Jeanne Hoffman Unmonumental Acrylic on board 130h x 170w cm R 35,000
Jeanne Hoffman Untitled 14 Stoneware 38h x 25w x 22d cm R 20,000
Jeanne Hoffman Unmonumental Acrylic on board 100h x 120w cm R 25,000
Jeanne Hoffman Untitled 5 Stoneware 52.50h x 35w x 27d cm R 25,000