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Ira Hoffecker

Ira Hoffecker is a German-Canadian artist. Relocating from Germany to Canada in 2004, now a Canadian citizen, she resides and maintains her art practice in Victoria, Canada. She is an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists.  In August 2018 Ira achieved an MFA degree from Plymouth University in England and Transart Institue, New York, N.Y. Ira achieved a First Class Bachelor (Honours) in Fine Art from the University of Gloucestershire, England in 2015.Previously, Ira studied art at the Vancouver Island School of Art in Victoria, Canada where she obtained a Diploma of Fine Arts in 2013.  Ira has exhibited in solo, duo and group exhibitions in England, Canada and Germany. In 2015, Ira was one of 20 UK graduates whose work was shortlisted for the Graduate Art Prize in London. She won the first prize in the juried ‘Abstract Show 2015’ in Vancouver with her painting Alexanderplatz VIII. Her Camp Moschendorf II painting was shortlisted for the John Moore Painting Prize 2016. The painting was exhibited at the 2016 Liverpool Biennial. Ira’s film Meanwhile in La La Land was chosen for the Official Selection at the Manchester Film Festival 2018 and was nominated for Best Documentary at the Back in the Box Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2017. Her video History as Personal Memory was chosen for the Official Selection in reserve for the German United Film Festival in Berlin in 2018.

My paintings are informed by the different identities cities take on over a period of time. I am interested in how different societies transform and change city spaces over the course of the centuries. My work examines the relationships between people and cities by responding to constant change, reconstruction and restoration in the urban landscape.    Decay, erasure, covering, revealing and rebuilding take place at the same time and are part of my painting practice. I see my process of covering as a metaphor for forgetting and suppressing the past. The process of revealing and sanding the surface down alludes to a process of remembering and acknowledging, reconciling historic events. The layers are equivalent to the archaeological strata in the evolution of a city. Places are overlaid with multiple histories, layers of paint cover and obscure but each coat is also informed by the previous layer.   I adopt geometric shapes inherent in architecture and maps from different times in history that provide the basis of my compositional language. Studying history books, maps and photographs, as well as digesting the city by walking the streets, all inform my understanding of the identity of a place.    On a personal level, my paintings embody my own memories and the cities’ atmospheres, which I am translating through shapes, colours and lines: marks that articulate the physicality of painting. I use painting to explore the city’s evolution and add my own experience to the context. 

By This Artist

The Signature of All Things

Painting / Acrylic
30" X 24" X 2"

Ira Hoffecker

$ 2700
Ira Hoffecker - Conjunction V Online Only

Conjunction V

Painting / Acrylic
40" X 60" X 2"

Ira Hoffecker

$ 4900
Ira Hoffecker - Over The Hill and Far Away Online Only

Over The Hill and Far Away

Painting / Oil
60" X 40" X 2"

Ira Hoffecker

$ 6400
Ira Hoffecker - Structure VIII Online Only

Structure VIII

Painting / Acrylic
48" X 72" X 2"

Ira Hoffecker

$ 5000
Ira Hoffecker - Urban Layers VI framed Online Only

Urban Layers VI framed

Painting / Acrylic
16" X 20" X 2"

Ira Hoffecker

$ 600
Ira Hoffecker - Conjunction I Online Only

Conjunction I

Painting / Acrylic
48" X 72" X 2"

Ira Hoffecker

$ 5900
Ira Hoffecker - Urban Layers VI Online Only

Urban Layers VI

Monoprint
48" X 32"

Ira Hoffecker

$ 890
Ira Hoffecker - Urban Layers III Online Only

Urban Layers III

Monoprint
48" X 32"

Ira Hoffecker

$ 890
Ira Hoffecker - Urban Layers II Online Only

Urban Layers II

Monoprint
48" X 32"

Ira Hoffecker

$ 890
Ira Hoffecker - Urban Layers I (mono print) Online Only

Urban Layers I (mono print)

Monoprint
47" X 32"

Ira Hoffecker

$ 890
Ira Hoffecker - Urban Layers Text III (mono print) Online Only
Ira Hoffecker - Urban Layers Text II (mono print) Online Only
Ira Hoffecker - Urban Layers Text (mono print) Online Only

Urban Layers Text (mono print)

Monoprint
20" X 15"

Ira Hoffecker

$ 400
Ira Hoffecker - Urban Layers VI (mono print) Online Only

Urban Layers VI (mono print)

Monoprint
20" X 15"

Ira Hoffecker

$ 400
Ira Hoffecker - Urban Layers V (mono print) Online Only

Urban Layers V (mono print)

Monoprint
20" X 15"

Ira Hoffecker

$ 400
Ira Hoffecker - Urban Layers IV (mono print) Online Only

Urban Layers IV (mono print)

Monoprint
20" X 15"

Ira Hoffecker

$ 400
Ira Hoffecker - Urban Layers III (mono print) Online Only

Urban Layers III (mono print)

Monoprint
20" X 15"

Ira Hoffecker

$ 400
Ira Hoffecker - Urban Layers II (mono print) Online Only

Urban Layers II (mono print)

Monoprint
20" X 15"

Ira Hoffecker

$ 400
Ira Hoffecker - Urban Layers I (mono print) Online Only

Urban Layers I (mono print)

Monoprint
20" X 15"

Ira Hoffecker

$ 400