Susan Hoffman

Susan Hoffman (b.) is a quilt artist. She began quilting while still in high school, and with her friend and fellow quilt artist Molly Upton, opened a small shop to sell artwork in her hometown in Vermont.[1] Hoffman attended college at the University of Denver.[1]

Hoffman and Upton lived as roommates in Canridge, Massachusetts after college, and began quilting together, making related quilts that they eventually termed "the pair collection."[1] In 1975, their Third Pair--Hoffman's "Moonlit" and Upton's "Greek"--were selected for inclusion in a Japan installation of the seminal 1971 Whitney Museum exhibition curated by Jonathan Holstein, Abstract Design in American Quilts.[1]

Beginning in the mid-1970s, Hoffman and Upton were represented by the Kornblee Gallery, known in the 1960s and 1970s for representing young artists who went on to great prominence.[2] They were the first quilt artists to be represented by a New York gallery.[3] Their 1975 exhibition received favorable reviews, including one by Ann-Sargent Wooster in Artforum, who noted Hoffman's "concern with subtleties of color" and her use of "units of cloth for chromatic abstractions similar to those of the German expressionists and Kupka."[4]

Exhibitions

Abstract Design in American Quilts, Japan, 1975

The New American Quilt, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York,1976[3]

Quilts by Radka Donnell, Susan Hoffman, and Molly Upton, Carpenter Center for the Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1975[5]

Joint show with Molly Upton, Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY, 1976[6]

Solo Exhibition, Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY, 1980

Peter Hoffman & Susan Hoffman, Southern Vermont Art Center, 2018

The Quilted Canvas II, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA 2018 [1]

Citations
  1. "Susan Hoffman: Quilt Artist". sdhoffman.com. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
  2. Glueck, Grace (2004-02-07). "Jill Kornblee, 84, Art Dealer". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
  3. Shaw, Robert (2009). American Quilts: The Democratic Art, 1780-2007. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 9781402747731.
  4. "Ann-Sargent Wooster on Susan Hoffman And Molly Upton". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
  5. "A History of the Art Quilt". hughlevin.com. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
  6. Ellenzweig, A., A. (February 1976). "Reviews". Arts Magazine. 50 (6): 24–25 – via ARTbibliographies Modern.


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