Second Saturday At 2500 Larimer Presents Andrew Hoffman

Join us for a spectacular time with great art, people and beer! Bio: Andrew Hoffman (b. 1984) is a Denver-based artist, designer, illustrator and professor. He is a graduate of Western State College in Gunnison, CO (BFA ’07) and studied at the Classical Art Academy in Boulder, CO. He is currently a User Interface designer at Deloitte Digital, a global digital agency specializing in web and app design and development and an adjunct professor at Metro State University of Denver. His art has been shown nationally and internationally at venues that include: the AIGA World Headquarters and the World Bank in New York City, the Denver Art Museum, RedLine, the CVA, BMoCA, Groundswell Gallery, Super Ordinary Gallery and Black Book Gallery in Denver, Colorado, Gallery Z in Tokyo, Japan and a visiting artist show at Western State in Gunnison, Colorado. Artist Statement: My art is process-based. I usually work on several paintings simultaneously, slowly working and re-working each composition until I feel intuitively that it is complete. Every mark is carefully planned, but mistakes happen and are a welcomed part of the process. I appreciate evidence of the human condition in my compositions. This process yields a completed composition that transcends the physicality of the piece being a representation of a image or concept on canvas, but rather, allows it to become a familiar dimensional object that is part of my routine - a relic of my everyday life. I tend to conceal select elements of my compositions. This form of reduction and destruction is challenging, but exhilarating. The idea of assembling and then eliminating perceived necessities, a principle tenet in minimalism, is a theme that I strive to apply to every aspect of my life. It is easy to identify inspiration and visual cues from design, typography, illustration and the screen-printing process in my artwork. I believe that the relationships between process, raw materials and an omnibus of various visual elements in my work can be translated as a holistic and complex language that utilizes design abstraction and vibrant systems of overlaid elements to communicate core themes of sustainability, transcendentalism and mysticism.