Jocelyn Fine, 41, 2021
“3walls is excited for our next pop up at The Invisible Dog in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. After a long hiatus, due to the pandemic, we welcome you to join us in viewing recent work from four inspiring artists.” — Bevin Cline, 3walls
The Brooklyn based pop up gallery 3walls is excited to present the recent work of four artists, Jocelyn Fine, Huê Thi Hoffmaster, Nancy Hubbard, and Elise Kaufman in the exhibition, Place of Mind, on view from May 24-26 at The Invisible Dog Art Center.
Two years into the pandemic, the artworks in this exhibition reflect their creation during a time of novel experiences. While this period included loss and isolation there were also unpredicted silver linings and life-altering decisions made. For few people, it has been a singular experience, and for most, it has been a multi-faced time of reflection and change.
Jocelyn Fine explores childhood memories and the sensations of summers traveling across the country in an outfitted blue Chevy van with her family. More obliquely, in Huê Thi Hoffmaster’s paintings, a life force signals from his abstract forms and dancing specs. Nancy Hubbard’s glassy surfaces suggest landscapes, perhaps physical and mental, in turmoil, while Elise Kaufman’s photographs capture quiet moments laden with kinetic energy, seemingly on the precipice of a significant event.
Jocelyn Fine, an artist from South Orange, New Jersey, is informed by her experiences as an art conservator, a teacher, a yogi, and by growing up in a family of artists. She is fascinated by the search for what lies beneath the surface and by the exploration of the process involved in creating something from nothing. She describes being guided by the energy around her and her intuition; she works impulsively, allowing gestures to turn into marks. Fine often paints with her hands, rollers, crayons, sticks or found objects and relishes in the unexpected and the accidental.
In the series, Places I’ve Been, Fine has been working on large scale paintings that explore her childhood memories. In the van her father outfitted into a home for her family of six, tables transformed into beds and draped netting became suspended sleeping cocoons. From this peripatetic home, they visited nearly every national park, crisscrossing the U.S., Canada and Western Europe. From 1970-85, they all kept journals and recorded their adventures. Unlike her siblings, for Fine, words did not come easily but the vibration of colors, rhythm, shapes and forms of these magnificent places left indelible impressions, etched into her visual memory. These paintings all evoke places she saw and the feelings they stirred within.
Fine received both a B.F.A in Fine Art and a B.A. in Art History from the University of Vermont and an M.S. in Architectural and Painting Conservation from Columbia University. She studied Painting Conservation at the Istituto Per l’Arte and il Restauro in Florence, Italy. Fine is an abstract painter whose work is in private collections throughout New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey.
My name is Huê Thi Hoffmaster (hWay), 39 years. Currently Residing in Hudson, New York. I both jokingly and earnestly hope to receive patience and faith in me as I test the limits of my ignorance, pursue what may very well be useless, as I go in search of that mystery and intuition that may or may not exist within me.
I think I initially started enjoying painting when I was a child because of the praise I receive from it and no one else around me really cared much about it so it could be a lane of my own. I’m inspired by having the freedom to explore and play with these colors and tools and to do it in a serious way like a child inventing a story to play upon. I love creating a picture from nothing at all and seeing some sort of internal activity eventually and inevitably show itself. After painting my entire life it became the best way for me to turn the mundane into something beautiful.
Art for me is a type of freedom. In a capitalistic world, making art is pointless so it’s great to be doing something on my own, without a linear way of being. Art is communicating the nuance of our sensibilities and sensualities and there’s space for all of us to do it in our own way.
Nancy Hubbard is a multidisciplinary artist and curator based in Brooklyn, NY. Working with gesso, charcoal, pigments, and wax, Nancy is primarily a landscape painter, but in a form that is uniquely hers. Her compositions come from imagined landscapes, art history nods, references to music and literature, and scientific findings in the natural world, though she says, “the scientific often seems much like a fiction in itself.”
Having studied Art History and photography as well as restoration and decorative arts, Nancy has put her every perception and understanding of art into her compositions, yet they remain balanced. She deals with essentially chaotic modes of inspiration and the incoherence of experience, memory, and written history, but somehow it comes together for her in a way that captures that mystery which she hopes to evoke.
Nancy was a member of the artist’s collective galleryELL from 2009-2016 and was a resident artist at the Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn from 2011-2015. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and art fairs in London UK, Toronto, Nashville, Washington, D.C., Southampton, and New York City, including at The Curator Gallery in Chelsea, and it is part of many private collections in the US, UK, and Belgium as well as the J.Crew collection. She holds a B.A. in Art History from Rutgers University and a B.F.A. from the State University of New York.
“Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming hallucination can make one feel that oneself, as an individual and a human being, is slowly being unravelled.” – Haruki Murakami
Elise Kaufman currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts. A multidisciplinary artist working in photography, painting and drawing, her body of work should be understood in the context of a collective whole. Regardless of media, her work relies on the expressive potential of light to suggest time, memory and (perhaps) longing and nostalgia.
She received her MFA from Queens College and her BFA from Pratt Institute. Her work has been exhibited in the United States as well as in Ireland, France, Spain and Italy; venues include the Albright-Knox Gallery, the Arkansas Art Center, ArtSpace Gallery (New Haven, CT), the Brooklyn Museum, the Hillwood Art Museum, the Kentler International Drawing Space, the Mills Gallery (Boston Center for the Arts), the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and the Weatherspoon Art Gallery (UNC @ Greensboro, NC). Her work is included in numerous public and private collections including the Arkansas Art Center, the Ballinglen Art Museum, the Birmingham Art Museum, the Boise Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Cedar Rapids Museum, the Delaware Art Museum, the Fogg Art Museum (Harvard University Museums), and the Werner H. and Sally-Ann Kramarsky Collection.
She has been a repeat Fellow at the Ballinglen Art Foundation and Museum in Co. Mayo, Ireland and a recent recipient of a Cow House Studio residency in Co. Wexford, Ireland.
Kaufman is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Art at the Pratt Institute and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts
About 3walls
3walls, founded in Brooklyn, NY, in 2011, is dedicated to exhibiting and promoting significant new work by local artists who achieve excellence in their field. Through regular pop-up shows in homes, galleries, and commercial spaces, 3walls creates intimate atmospheres, encouraging dialogue and exchanging ideas between artists and art lovers.
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On View
Tuesday, May 24, 6-8pm
Wednesday, May 25, 1-7pm
Thursday, May 26, 1-7pm
Opening Reception
Tuesday, May 24
6-8pm
Admission
Free
Location
51 Bergen St.