Air: Ryan Hoffman
Essay by Rebecca Gallo
Liverpool Street Gallery
Ryan Hoffman’s series ‘Air’ is the subject of this new art book. Hoffman participates in a new genre of painting that explores contrast between photographic representation and painterly application, a subject that has become prevalent with the popularity of the digital image. ‘Air’ explores this unique paradigm with a collection of wall-mounted sculptures and two-dimensional paintings that draw colour inspiration from diverse landscapes like Whale Beach and Marrickville in NSW and downtown Los Angeles, USA. The book acts as a medium to express the artist’s conceptual framework, which can also be entered through Rebecca Gallo’s essay; “Air is a refusal of space. A quantifiable assemblage of particles… Everything that appears void is full.”
