Labyrinth, 1999
mixed media, 21 x 19 x 6"
Drifting Apart, 1999
Mixed media, 7'7" x 3'3" x 1'
Linda Hoffman received a B.A. in Fine Arts from Bryn Mawr College. She also studied at the Japanese Noh Theater in Kyoto, Japan, the Ecole Jacques Locoq, International School of Masks, Movement and Theater in Paris France, and La Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, France.
Linda Hoffman works with old tools, barn boards, tree trunks, shells, bones; materials she finds in the New England landscape. Her gift is in her appreciation of these objects. She seems to have a total trust in their inherent qualities and in her ability to transform them with a natural wonder and aesthetic purpose.
Hoffman's latest sculpture combines bronze figures with elements from the landscape - stones and branches - or old tools - such as wheels and gears.
"In this new work, my focus is on the human being as present in an environment. I sculpt a figure to inhabit a particular old tool, tree branch or stone. The figure is kinesthetically present, actively involved in a movement - whether sitting in meditation, balancing from a ring or walking on a rusty gear." LH