Skillfully crafted portraits created with the mark making in the figure and background attracted us to the beautiful work of Brandi Hofer!
Brandi
Hofer is a well collected Canadian Artist, exhibiting internationally and
across Canada. She has been ambitiously perusing her career upon attaining her
BFA degree. Her main focus is figurative and portraiture painting, she explores
themes of empowerment, the female psyche, and emotional self. Hofer’s work has
been featured on national television, has experience in creating custom
artworks for designers and has recently translated her artwork into large-scale
murals. Since became a mother in 2014 and has been involving her children in
her painting process, creating a 44-piece series with her then 2-year-old son.
Brandi continues to be extremely prolific at her in-home studio, creating
several bodies of work a year, on top of regular commissioned work.
Featured
work includes her series GUS, which was created with her son following the
death of the artist’s mother, as well as work from the series MINE (last three images), pertaining
to the me too movement and rights of your own body.
See
below for her statement on the series MINE:
One of the first concepts we
grasp in life – mine
Yet somehow what is mine
As a girl
And now as a woman
had and
has been
judged
molded
lusted after
shaved
plucked
pushed
shamed
mine - stolen
conglomerated
a society obsessed
let them be shamed forever into silence
a door swings open
light crawls across the floor
she walks through
resilient
unscathed of the injustices that weighted on her foremothers
Yet somehow what is mine
As a girl
And now as a woman
had and
has been
judged
molded
lusted after
shaved
plucked
pushed
shamed
mine - stolen
conglomerated
a society obsessed
let them be shamed forever into silence
a door swings open
light crawls across the floor
she walks through
resilient
unscathed of the injustices that weighted on her foremothers
You
can view Brandi’s daily creative actives on Instagram @brandihoferartist and check out
her website www.brandihofer.ca
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