Artist Statement: I test the limits of my ignorance and pursue what may very well be useless, as I go in search of that mystery and intuition that may or may not exist within me. My paintings represent whoever I am when I arrive in front of the canvas. The aesthetic variety may be a record of emotions or play and is certainly a by-product of getting captivated in whatever game I’m playing with inside of the picture plane. At times, I love to push and pull and ride the thin line between objective and non-objective. I love to organize color masses with messes of lines breaking spaces and spots of color floating around as if it's dust in the air in front of this “thing” I’m painting. To use black masses to brighten the space. To make up the rules as I go and to discover new “rights and wrongs.” It’s a play-a painting turns into an event, and like life, is rife with inconsistencies. How lovely. Bio: Huê (hWay) Thi Hoffmaster, the son of Vietnamese and American parents, is a painter, Self Expression Mentor and Coach. Huê studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (2001 - 2005). Huê is shamelessly a multidisciplinary painter working in different styles from objective/figurative works to nonobjective and abstract paintings drawing artistic inspiration through self development, healing, playful expression, and the joys and sorrows of life. Huê has produced artwork and exchanged it privately with collectors for 20 years. He’s shown at a The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum in 2005 selling his entire collection. Most recently he has participated in the exhibition “Jewel the Wound” at The Hudson Milliner Art Salon (October 2020) and a sold out solo show at PLACE Millerton in 2017.
Hue lives and works in Hudson, New York. Education: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 2001 - 2005, BFA Selected Exhibits: October 2022 - Delphian Gallery Juried Exhibition at Unit 1 Gallery, London, UKAugust 2022 - The Summer Show, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NYJune 2022 - BAM Art Advisory Invitational, "Outside In: Textures and Abstractions, Larchmont, NYMay 2022 - 3Walls Pop-Up at The Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NYMohawk Hudson Regional 2021, Albany Center Gallery, September 2021 Albany, New YorkFebruary 2021 - Invitational Exhibit - Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY October 2020 - Hudson Milliner Art Salon, Group Exhibition “Jewel the Wound”
Hudson, New YorkNovember 2019 - Saatchi’s The Other Art Fair, Juried Exhibition
Brooklyn, New YorkSeptember 2019 - 41 Main Street, Group Exhibition
Millerton, New YorkAugust 2018 - PLACE Millerton, Solo Exhibition
Millerton, New YorkMay 2005 - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, “ASE” Group
Exhibition Toppan Award for Excellence in Figure Drawing
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania