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Artist Statement/ Exhibition History
I make mixed media paintings that explore bodily memory with emotional color, and use my own body as a reference to create abstracted images of the human figure. I build layers of paint and texture with a variety of mark-making techniques to create unexpected conversations between paint and sensations of my body. Thin paint allowed to drip invites the material to disrupt and transfigure my mark-making, bridging the space between figure and the canvas ground. Smoothly applied oil paint indicates the soft form of the figure, while abruptly drawn marks made with an oil stick depict muscular tension and energy. Pure colors next to neutralized mixes develop moods. Previous paint layers impact the final surface, and later coats are washed away to reveal earlier marks. By creating situations where I can allow spontaneity in the painting process, I become a collaborator with my materials to build the artwork. I am a conduit to make paintings that want to be made.This series of work reconnects me with my body, which I have felt disconnected from due to traumatic experiences. Memories can be stored in the body and reignited in visceral ways that are separate from memories kept in the brain. The dichotomy of traumatic memory is that memories can appear both as an image of a single moment frozen in time, and also as moments superimposed and disintegrated: unable to be placed within linear time or rational experience. My paintings of layered bodies and colors seek to reconcile memories from my mind and body simultaneously with the present moment. The result is a painting that processes my past somatic experiences through expressions recorded in paint.
Grace Hoag, digital photograph, Tristan Mark, 2019
Exhibition History
2025
Somatic Memory, Solo Exhibition, October, Petrichor Collective, 131 E Lincoln Ave, Fort Collins, Colorado
Artist in Residence, Invitational residency program, July- September, Wolverine Farm Publick House, 316 Willow St, Fort Collins
Embodied, Artist and Curator, Museum of Art Fort Collins
4th Annual Figure Exhibition, Invitational, The Merchant Room Gallery, 222 Walnut St, Fort Collins
2nd Annual Art Gala, Invitational, Front Range Community College, Fort Collins31st Annual Cup Exhibition & Sale, NCECA ‘Formation’ conference, Salt Lake City, Utah
2024
Holiday Sale, Guest Artist, Smokestack Pottery, Fort Collins
Summer Art Market, Juried, Dairy Arts Center, Boulder
45th Annual Greeley Arts Picnic, Juried Arts Festival, Lincoln Park, Greeley
Artist Sketchbook Workshop, Front Range Community College TRIO program, Westminster
BlackBox Art Collective, Invitational, 929 15th St, Greeley
The Starry Night Art Gala, Invitational, Front Range Community College, Fort Collins
2023
Holiday Sale, Guest Artist, Smokestack Pottery, Fort Collins
Meet Grace Hoag, Magazine Interview, Canvas Rebel, link
Prismatic, Juried, The Dairy Arts Center, Boulder
2022
Holiday Sale, Guest Artist, Smokestack Pottery, Fort Collins
Back2School, Invitational, Friend of a Friend Gallery, Denver
Anxious Nation, Documentary, Directed by Laura Morten and Vanessa Roth
2021
In Absentia, Artist-in-Residence, Art Gym Denver Gallery, Denver
2020
The Future of Now: Contemporary Art in Our Unsustainable World, Juried, Emmanuel Art Gallery, University of Colorado Denver
Pen Pal, Invitational, Stone House Art Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
Zen Garden, Invitational, Madison and Main Gallery, Greeley
Mirror, Mirror, Invitational, Mari Michener Library, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley
Annual Student Exhibition, Juried, Campus Commons Gallery, University of Northern Colorado
Seasons, Juried, Lafayette Public Library, Lafayette, Colorado
2019
Catharsis In Color, Artist and Curator, Juried Two-Person Exhibition with Jules Black, Mariani Gallery, University of Northern Colorado
The Sum of Our Hearts, Artist and Curator, Juried, Oak Room Gallery, University of Northern Colorado
Annual Student Exhibition, Juried, Campus Commons Gallery, University of Northern Colorado
Working Artist Project, Invitational, Mariani Gallery, University of Northern Colorado
No, a Fence, Invitational, Chain-Link Fence, University of Northern Colorado
Annual Student Exhibition, Juried, Mariani Gallery, University of Northern Colorado
2018
Art Walk, Green Earth Brewing Company, Greeley, Colorado
Student Juried Exhibition, University of Northern Colorado Gala, Tointon Gallery, Union Colony Civic Center, Greeley
Contemporary Blues, DoubleTree Hotel, Greeley
2016
Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Selected Showcase, Juried, Denver Art Museum
Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Juried, Colorado History Center, Denver
An Artistic Discovery: Congressional Art Competition, Juried, Outnumbered Gallery, Littleton