Eva Hoffmann

Elegance, Painting, Oil on Canvas

2023

Elegant lady beautifully dressed. Original oil painting on canvas, ready to hang. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signe...

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. Photographed with my phone, the colors may change, depending on the calibration of each screen...

Freedom Soul, oil painting on linen belgian canvas. “She was born to be free, let her run wild in her own way and you will never lose her.â€

Kasia Character is what marks the individuality of a person. Thinking about Kasia's character, it feels that the chosen fruit represents her in its entirety. Her seeds are red and ...

NORA SEE grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where, as a child, she taught herself to draw. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans. She works and lives in New Orleans. In her oil paintings, Nora See renders framed paintings on walls with which human figures interact. Through her classical painting style and the use of historical visual references, her pieces contrast the past with the present. By combining these temporal elements with the use of frames as containers, she explores themes of consumption, imprisonment, and liberation. Nora’s work has been exhibited in a variety of venues and is also in the personal collection of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. The artist says of her work... “Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” A quote oft attributed to various sources that was never actually uttered by any of them. Though Mark Twain elaborated on the sentiment: “Ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms.” In the Framed Series, I use my 1% contribution to combine issues of consumption with my autobiography. I paint copies of copies of paintings within paintings to reference the appropriation, commodification, and altered continuum of art. My paintings of paintings are based on photographs of originals to perpetuate the continual distillation of form, given the ease with which images are presently exchanged and modified. Further, by reducing historically significant paintings to framed objects...

Free to Be Myself (part of the “Red Horse” series) This work explores a state of quiet inner freedom — the moment when a woman no longer shapes herself for the outside world, but r...

Charlotte (from the “Becoming” series) In this work, the artist continues to explore themes of inner growth, presence, and the search for her own voice. The figure remains central —...