HOPE GANGLOFF

These captured moments are fleeting-turned-immortal, like the feeling of a breeze on a hot summer day by the lake, or watching a lightning storm from a front porch, waiting breathlessly for the next bolt and accompanying thunderclap.

Gangloff’s uncanny use of color and suggestive line work sets a mood that is both alluring and enticing … the work has a distinct aura that emphasizes unexpected colors and signature brush strokes. Bright and inventive—approaching Technicolor at times—the hues conjure a realm that feels disconnected from reality. Neon greens and oranges, underlying pinks and bright blues dominate the color spectrum, bringing forth hues that evoke the altered state of psychedelic experiences. Dreamscapes grown from the seeds of the artist’s personal environment, Gangloff’s dynamic scenes tempt you into a world of her own making: one of enrapturing color, sweeping lines, and familiar objects turned surreal.

- Kathleen Hefty, The Brooklyn Rail (2019)

Gangloff is well-known for her palette, which has grown increasingly vibrant and saturated, even occasionally psychedelic, over the years. This evolution stems from her propensity to allow colors to travel across and through paintings: once inspired to use a shade or color that may have previously been intimidating or not “right” (for example, greens and purples are rarely seen in earlier works, but are now key), they begin to make their way from canvas to canvas. This method makes it easier for a viewer to identify a particular period, not unlike the way Gangloff might experience each series as a different “chapter” of her life.

She keeps all her lines at a careful density, just tight enough to support patch after patch of glowing color — because for Gangloff, color is really the thing.

- Will Heinrich, The New York Times (2022)

Painter Hope Gangloff has more than hit her supple, sensual, optical stride. Landscapes … and still-lifes are all made with brilliantly focused mark-by-mark accumulation and retinal density, tangerine color, and a love of vision itself.

- Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine (2019)

These aforementioned departures from usual or familiar colors, or being “sucked into color holes,” as she puts it, spring from her surroundings, but can also be attributed to the life of a working artist, tubes of paint or specific brushes getting lost in the shuffle, only to reappear months or even years later, ready to be reintroduced and to reinspire. The emotive capacity of a color or the mark-making capability of a brush can then influence the overall look and tone of a period in Gangloff’s oeuvre.

Ultimately, Hope Gangloff is simply a genre painter, though a genre painter with a twist. Historically, portraiture, landscape and still life painting focused on presentation, but Gangloff’s paintings are about presence. Her work reveals how we define ourselves and find connection through our environments, our relationships, and our emotional states. In doing so, she invites us not just to look at her subjects, but to experience their world, however briefly, from the inside out.

HOPE GANGLOFF (b. 1974) attended The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. She is well known for her vibrant portrait and landscape paintings that combine a distinctive bright palette with intricate linework. Her early portraiture garnered attention for its intimate observation of relatable moments, from a road trip with friends to a late-night house party. Gangloff’s work was recently exhibited in "Forces of Nature: Voices That Shaped Environmentalism" at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., and in “Women Painting Women” at the Fort Worth Modern. Solo exhibitions include the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University; the Broad Art Museum, East Lansing; and Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; the Broad Art Museum, East Lansing; the Kemper Museum, Kansas City; and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, among others.

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