Born in Prescott, Arizona, and raised in California, these places have had an important impact on Terry Hoff’s work. Hoff is often striving for that unusual juxtaposition of shape and image that seems fresh and new, yet familiar and bizarre at the same time. Cartoons, the ocean, materials nonsense, and mind-altering substances all have a place in the shepherding of these figures and images into existence.

A nod to artists Hesse, bontecou, Murray – Hoff embraces their proficiency of “the joy of making” and art as a playful dialogue, Mariposa’s inflated, bulbous, rounded forms are reactive narratives of overstimulation.