Barbara Hocker
Primary Medium: Photography
Other media: Mixed media, Installation
Barbara Hocker
Email: barbarahocker (at) att (dot) net
Website: http://www.bahocker.30art.com
Artist Statement
My artistic practice is part of my overall spiritual path. In integration with yoga, tai chi, meditation, and study (which includes readings in the history and philosophies of Buddhism, Taoism and Wabi Sabi aesthetics), my artwork is an outward, physical expression and communication of my inner, subjective experience. I practice the art of photography as a “Zen Art”, emphasizing the attempt to escape the rational mind and to capture shots from the place of “No Mind”. I want my work to be intimate, purposely unsettled and imperfect. I use alternative lens optics, unorthodox manipulation of the “auto” features of the digital camera, and digital post-capture processes to find unexpected results. In printing the images I pay careful attention to the material qualities of the paper, and often embed layers of images in layers of encaustic in order to embody the digital image in tactile physicality. I use association, resonance, sensuousness and metaphor to create poetic images.
Other media: Mixed media, Installation
Barbara Hocker
Email: barbarahocker (at) att (dot) net
Website: http://www.bahocker.30art.com
Artist Statement
My artistic practice is part of my overall spiritual path. In integration with yoga, tai chi, meditation, and study (which includes readings in the history and philosophies of Buddhism, Taoism and Wabi Sabi aesthetics), my artwork is an outward, physical expression and communication of my inner, subjective experience. I practice the art of photography as a “Zen Art”, emphasizing the attempt to escape the rational mind and to capture shots from the place of “No Mind”. I want my work to be intimate, purposely unsettled and imperfect. I use alternative lens optics, unorthodox manipulation of the “auto” features of the digital camera, and digital post-capture processes to find unexpected results. In printing the images I pay careful attention to the material qualities of the paper, and often embed layers of images in layers of encaustic in order to embody the digital image in tactile physicality. I use association, resonance, sensuousness and metaphor to create poetic images.
Selected Works
|  Water Study 1 - 2009 - pigment print, edition of 15 - 12" x 24" - $200.00 [Fundraiser] digital art using photographs  Water Study 5 - 2009 - pigment print, edition of 15 - 10" x 19" - $200.00 [Fundraiser] digital print using photographs  Snow Blind 2 - 2009 - pigment print, edition of 15 - 12" x 16" - $200.00 [Fundraiser] Digital photograph shot from moving car with plastic lens on DSLR.  Snow Blind 1 - 2009 - pigment print, edition of 15 - 12" x 16" - $200.00 [Fundraiser] Digital photograph shot from moving car with plastic lens on DSLR. |
Artist Bio
Barbara Hocker
Bio
Solo Exhibitions:
Upcoming: Arnold Arboretum, Boston, MA 2010
Stevens Gallery, UCONN 2007
EBK Gallery, West Hartford, CT 2006
John Bryan Gallery, Farmington, CT 2005, 2001
Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT 2002, 1999
Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA 2000, 1998, 95, 94
Butterworth Gallery, Hartford College for Women 1997
Partition 942 Gallery, Hartford, CT 1989
Projects:
Made Spaces site specific window installation at 866 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT - 2009-2010
Shadow Room (Site Specific Installation) New Haven City Wide Open Studios Alternative Space 2006
Art From Connecticut Forests - Traveling Exhibition 2004-2005
Charter Oak Cultural Center Gallery, Hartford; Lyman Allyn Museum, New London; Kellogg Environmental Center Gallery, Derby; Greenwich Audubon Society Gallery, Greenwich; The Silo Gallery, New Milford
Continuum (Site Specific Installation) Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT 2002
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Artspace Gallery, New Haven, CT
Gallery 195, New Haven, CT
Paper New England, Artspace Hartford Gallery, Hartford, CT
Connecticut Commission on Culture Gallery, Hartford, CT
Central Connecticut State University Art Gallery, New Britain, CT Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT
Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, MA
NESAD Suffolk University, Boston, MA
The Promenade Gallery, The Bushnell, Hartford, CT
Pump House Gallery, Hartford, CT
South Windsor Library, S. Windsor, CT
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT
Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
Saltbox Gallery, West. Hartford, CT
Wood Memorial Library, S. Windsor, CT
Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
Education:
Graduate Studies, Cranbrook Academy of Art
BFA, Syracuse University
Awards & Publications
Greater Hartford Arts Council New Boston Fund Individual Artist Fellowship 2008
Studio Visit Journal volume 5, page 75 April 2009