foundations
Brigette Hoffman
july 14 - august 8, 2025
Artsy online fair
In Foundations 2025, Brigette Hoffman blends a Faux Naïf style with spiritual depth. Through whimsical yet symbolic paintings and sculptural works she explores home, memory, and balance with sincerity and emotional clarity.
Hoffman’s work blends childlike wonder with spiritual inquiry, anchored in the emotional and symbolic terrain of home. Embracing a Faux Naïve aesthetic, her work channels sincerity and intuition, allowing her to explore complex ideas with clarity, warmth, and accessibility.
In her paintings, Hoffman draws from a personal vocabulary of recurring symbols—circus tents, swingsets, bicycles, houses, ladders—placing them within surreal, ephemeral landscapes. These motifs evoke places of early memory and imagination while simultaneously alluding to deeper, unseen realms. Color plays an important role, with vivid backdrops like fiery reds and Yves Klein blues framing pastel structures that hint at fragility, movement, and quiet tension. Her visual language draws inspiration from primal and symbolist art as well as train-hopper symbology, layering references that touch on the cyclical, the sacred, and the spiritual. The wheel becomes a symbol of home and motion; the ladder, of ascension and connection to higher states.
A central theme in Hoffman’s work is the idea of home—not just as a physical location, but as an internal sense of safety, identity, and belonging. Her paintings often reflect emotional and physical spaces that shape the self, while also reaching toward more mystical dimensions of existence. This inner home becomes a guiding force across her practice.
Hoffman’s sculptural series, Omens, introduces another dimension to her work. These sculptures are carefully constructed and more analytically developed than her paintings, yet remain deeply connected to their intuitive origins. The figures—duendes or Omens—are imagined as benevolent, protective beings that dwell within domestic spaces. Unlike traditional folklore, her versions offer comfort rather than fear, bridging the gap between the seen and the unseen, the tangible and the emotional.
Together, Hoffman’s paintings and sculptures operate as silent storytellers—mapping the spaces between joy and illusion, order and imagination, the material world and its metaphysical echoes. Through a balance of spontaneity and structure, she invites viewers into a visual realm that honors both innocence and introspection.
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Brigette Hoffman
Brigette Hoffman is a German-Nicaraguan-American artist based in Miami. She earned her BFA from The Academy of Fine Arts (HFBK) Hamburg, Germany, in 2020. Hoffman's artistic practice spans painting, sculpture, installation, and physical animation. Her work draws from various inspirations, weaving together elements of her personal journey, emotions, and character portrayals.
Believing strongly in art's ability to communicate independently, Hoffman's creations serve as silent storytellers, inviting viewers to engage with their narratives. Her art explores themes of childhood imagination, the artist's exploration, and spirituality. Using a diverse range of materials and techniques, her installations offer surreal representations filled with raw symbolism.
In her creative process, Hoffman instinctively brings characters to life as sculptures or animated figures, each embodying a unique muse. This process feels akin to tapping into a divine source, as her sculptures inhabit worlds filled with vibrant colors and ethereal light, providing a break from the mundane aspects of everyday life. Through her paintings, Hoffman reveals the landscapes from which these sculptures emerge, capturing realms where colors dance freely and gravity seems to have less weight.
