Kate Hoffman

Artist Kate has been painting for more than 30 years. She studied at the Art Students League in New York and the Instituto Bellas Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums, including the Museum of Fine Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico and the Logan House Gallery of the Beatrice Wood Foundation in Ojai.

Her work is widely collected and can be seen in the permanent collection of the Ojai Valley Inn and Spa, and Rotary Internation in Chicago as well as many private collections.

She loves to work on large surfaces, blending rich earthy colors with outlined suggestions of shape and volume. Her images are simple and loose and surfaces are often rubbed to suggest the dimension of the canvas, paper and gesso underneath. She is known for her paintings of horses and other animals as well as the blue and green water of her seascapes.

Josef Woodard of the LA Times said of her: “One intriguing show along the way was Kate Hoffman’s fine painting exhibition at the Logan House Gallery. This is one of those galleries whose stunning view of Upper Ojai out the window is a distraction. But Hoffman’s art effectively reels us back inside. Not content to just dwell on the shore, she slathe...

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2002 Ojai City Hall
2002 ART ART Gallery, Woodland Hills California
2001 Logan House Gallery, Beatrice Wood Studio, Ojai, California
2000-2001 Great Dames Gallery, Ojai, California
1995-1996 Marsanne, Ft. Collins, Colorado
1983 Visual Arts Gallery, Queens College, New York, New York
2009 Art Horse Magazine online juried gallery Show, “Ex Arte Equinus II”
2008 855 At The Arts Center “Big”, Carpentaria, California
2008 39 Adah Callahan, Juried Art Show, Ventura, California Fairgrounds
2003 The Show: Southwest Juried Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2002 “Small Works for a Big Cause”, Trobridge Gallery, Ojai, California
1994-1995 Colored Pencil Society of America Second and Third International Show, Portland, Oregon


AWARDS:

2013 First Award, "The Horse", Ojai Art Center
2009 Cover Image Award “Ex Arte Equinus” limited edition book published by Art Horse Magazine, Texas
2008 First Award, 39th Adah Callahan Juried Art Show, Ventura, California Fairgrounds
2008 First Award, “Big”, 855 At The Arts Center, Carpenteria, California
2003 Special Juror’s Award presented by juror Susan Rothenberg and Honorable Mention, The Show, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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