[Grantee Event] Anne Hoff: Desert Whispers
December 18, 2024 – April 9, 2025
Bristlecone Gallery, Western Nevada College
2201 W College Parkway, Carson City
Artist’s Reception:
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM; artist introduction at 5:30 PM
Capital City Arts Initiative is delighted to present work by Anne Hoff in the Desert Whispers exhibition. She captures a sense of surface and line from the landscape into her images.
CCAI’s exhibit will be in Western Nevada College’s Bristlecone Gallery, 2201 W College Parkway, Carson City from December 18, 2024 — April 9, 2025. The gallery is open to the public, Monday through Friday, 8am – 5pm. The artist’s reception will take place on Tuesday, February 25, 5pm – 6:30pm.
Within the past several decades spent in Nevada and Arizona, Hoff has been inspired by the vast spaces of the West. Stunning vistas and isolated landscapes have dominated the visual language in her work. She uses the desert flora to accentuate the solitude.
Courtesy of Capital City Arts Initiative (CCAI)
Anne Hoff made the majority of her pieces using classic lithography printing techniques. “Stone lithographs are a traditional printmaking technique that involves drawing directly onto a stone with an oil-based crayon or ink. The artist will then use a series of chemical processes to fix the image to the stone, and then wipe away the original drawing to leave a trace on the stone. The stone is then dampened and inked, and the artist will apply pressure to transfer the ink to paper.”(from the internet). The exhibition presents several of the heavy stone blocks that Hoff used to create her images.
Hoff’s work includes installations, murals, sculptural prints, hybrid prints, and drawings on translucent film and cloth. She is a professor of Printmaking and Drawing at the College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, 2000 – present. She exhibits her work in local and international portfolios, invitationals, and educational conferences. Her work is in university printmaking collections throughout the United States.
The Initiative is funded by the John and Grace Nauman Foundation, Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Nevada Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, Kaplan Family Charitable Fund, Southwest Gas Corporation Foundation, Steele & Associates LLC, and CCAI sponsors and members.
Visit Capital City Arts Initiative’s website for more information about this exhibition.
