The Human Condition by Elizabeth Featherstone Hoff

Artist’s Biography:

Elizabeth Featherstone Hoff grew up in, what was, at the time, a rural southern neighborhood in the state of Virginia , USA .

As a child, she was unable to see with any clarity until she was almost four years old and started on a series of corrective eye surgeries. Elizabeth learned to see first with her hands and ears. "I think that, because of this, the part of my brain that processes sight is wired a bit differently. I know that the way I imagined things to be, and the way they really are, still creates a kind of conflicted area in which I, as an artist, consistently have to work and rework it all out. I am also intensely sensitive to color, almost to the point where it quite literally vibrates inside my eyes," she says.

Featherstone Hoff's career in art started in New York City. Previously, she had had a short lived career as a song lyricist working with jazz and rock musicians. She had some success, (recordings, etc.),but it was not what she wanted to do.

Fortunately for Featherstone Hoff, one of her art teachers encouraged her to enter shows right away, so her career and resume began along with her studies. When she moved back down south to Virginia , she continued studying with teachers and artists, Jennie Lea Knight and Anne Truitt.

Eliizabeth Featherstone Hoff's professional career, although interrupted from time to time by “major medical” events, has continued to grow. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in Europe, America and South America and, museums in America . Her work is also represented in one book and the artist has had an in-depth pictorial interview in a major American sculpture magazine. "Best of all, I recently was able to build my own studio!" she says.

Year of Birth: 1955