Elisabeth Hoffova

Hang Out

1985

French modernist tempera painting of an open air market in the streets of town by artist Schwerb, circa 1950. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. ...

Contemporary acrylic abstract using eye catching hues of orange, red, green and blue, circa 1970. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival p...

Abstract painting accented in bright hues of red, blue and a soft lavender by French artist AM Vivent, 1986. Signed and dated lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a ...

Powerful French painting of red, black and white abstract faces in acrylic and ink, 2000. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a standard...

TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked ...

Presenting an original oil on canvas by American artist Jan Stussy(1921-1990) Jan Stussy was a prolific artist and educator heading the art department at UCAL for more than thirty y...

A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and sky are tinged a movie musical pale blue and their gear is a bit too colorful for the era of man-hauling. And then there’s the sled, piled high not with boxes of supplies but with a jumbled heap of antiquities: Greek Athenas, bits of a coliseum, a ship’s great wheel. In Jessica Houston’s collage “The Long Haul,” the explorers drag history itself into the great beyond, their backs turned from their absurd load. But we take in the entire scene. In her suite of works, Over the Edge of the World, Houston uses oil on wood, ink on paper, and collages of found images, many from National Geographic Magazine, to rearrange the evidence – and thus history’s possibilities. Houston joins visual artists such as Judit Hersko, Katja Aglert, and Isaac Julien...

Robert Carroll was born in 1934 and was predominantly inspired by the 1950s growing up. Abstract Expressionism prevailed in the 1950s as a primary method of painting, and explored id...