Big Rush
Terry Hoff

Saturday March 7th • 6 - 9pm

As the Bay Area has morphed from its quieter days as a countercultural capital of California, into a bustling economic powerhouse central to the global economy, the pace of life in and around the Bay has sped to an almost unsustainable fervor as all those living in the area desperately try to hold on. Yet 30 minutes down the rugged coast, longtime Bay Area-based artist Terry Hoff has insulated himself from the frenetic noise, crafting exploratory and intricately composed abstract paintings, as the waves crash offshore.

From the sleepy coastal enclave of Half Moon Bay, veteran painter Terry Hoff indulges in a painting practice firmly rooted in the moment. Sumptuous fades of colors, careen over highly textured surfaces, soft sprays of pigment are contrasted by razor sharp taped edges, redirecting our focus from the noise of the outside world into the complexities, harmonies and dissonances of the painted planes unfolding before us. The occasional shaped panel, provides another break in expectation, as the convention of square and rectangular substrates are turned on their head in favor of surfaces whose rounded profiles better echo the contorting forms and fields of color that resonate through these paintings.

Boldly breaking from the anxious rat race of the city, the paintings within Terry Hoff’s exhibition Big Rush chart an inventive course through a sublime field of abstraction all the artist’s own.