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Carl Hoffner has been creating fine art lithographs since 1985. His work is shown in galleries in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia. He has been exhibiting his work at Art Expo New York and in many of this country's top art festivals such as Ann Arbor, Michigan; Columbus, Ohio; Chicago; Virginia Beach, Virginia; Atlanta, Georgia; and State College, Pennsylvania. Prestigious corporations and universities such as: Agway Inc., IBM, Pfizer Inc., Ford Motor Corporation, General Motors Corporation, Motorola Corporation, ITT Industries, University of Michigan, American Reinsurance Company, Martha Jefferson Hospital, Charlottesville, Virginia, and the Genesee Hospital, Rochester, New York have added his work to their collections.
Carl received a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland in 1975 and a MFA in studio arts (painting) from Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York in 1979. From 1975 to 1977, Carl worked as a free-lance courtroom artist for a Baltimore/Washington television station. He first studied printmaking in 1978 when he was awarded a Summer Fellowship from Syracuse University. In 1978, he was awarded a Ford Foundation grant to study printmaking and in 1982 he chose to concentrate fully on the medium of lithography. Most of his early lithographs were drawn on and printed from Bavarian limestone. In 1987, he began to experiment with color by drawing on and printing from several stones. The texture of the stones and the layering of different colors create the rich, luminous and soft tones for which his lithographs are known. |
