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WADE HOEFER

Wade Hoefer.jpg

Photograph of Wade Hoefer in his studio

by friend & photographer John Youngblood

“The landscape is what I know; it’s the only thing I’m sure of. Remove the landscape tradition from painting and you’re left with a sense of loss. My work is made by hand. We’re only human, and we want confirmation of that.”

-Wade Hoefer

Excerpt quote from an essay by Michael Dunev

Wade Hoefer-Emporda, Michael Dunev Art Projects

April 2000

BIOGRAPHY

 

Wade hoefer; 1948 - 2020.  Born in Long Beach, CA - 2020 Santa Rosa, CA. M.F.A. in 1972 at California College of Art and Craft in Oakland, CA.          

 

                                                                                                  SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

1997            "Trio of Landscape Artists: Katherine Bowling, April Gornik,

            Wade Hoefer," David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO

1996            "American Landscape Painting in the 90's."

            Harn Museum, Gainesville, FL

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1995            Monique Knowlton Gallery, NY, NY

            California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido Beach, CA

            Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID

            Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1994            Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA

            Thomas Babeor & Co., La Jolla, CA

1994            Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA

1993            Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

            Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA

1992            Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

            Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA

1991            Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1990            Gibbs Museum of Art, Charleston, SC

            Little Rock Museum of Contemporary Art, Little Rock, AK

1989            Cheney Cowles Museum of Art, Spokane, WA

            University of New Mexico, Las Cruces, NM

            Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs, CA

1987            Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA

            Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

            San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

1986            Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

1985            Gabriella Cardazza, Venice, Italy

1981            Tom Luttrell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1978            Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

1975            National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1973            Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

           

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

The Estee Lauder Companies, Inc.

Microsoft Corporation, Los Angeles, CA

Bank of America, World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA

Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

J.P. Morgan, Los Angeles, CA

Twigg-Smith Foundation, Honolulu, HI

Thurston Twigg-Smith, Honolulu, HI

Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

University Art Museum Berkeley, CA

San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA

San Francisco Arts Commission, S.F. International Airport, CA

Philip Morris Companies, Inc., New York, NY

General Electric Company, New York, NY

General Electric Company, Fairfield, CT

University Art Museum at Berkeley, CA

Fidelity Investors, Boston, MA

Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL

Mason Phelps, La Jolla, CA

Frederick Weisman, Los Angeles, CA

Edgar Bronfman Sr., Sun Valley, ID

Budd Bishop, Director, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL

Stephanie French and Amory Houghton III, New York, NY

Jim Hedges, H.H.L. Global Investments, Naples, FL

Goldie Hawn, Los Angeles, CA

Nicolas Cage, Los Angeles, CA

Tommy Chong, Santa Monica, CA

Robert Bergman and Marie Krane Bergman, Chicago, IL

Dyersbyrg Corporation, New York, NY

                                                                                                           

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

The Aspen Times, "Trio of Landscape Artists at David Floria Gallery:

Katherine Bowling, April Gornik, Wade Hoefer," Karrie Click, Feb. 8, 1997

Art in America, "Wade Hoefer at Monique Kowlton,"

Gerrit Henry, February 1996, p. 89

Los Angeles Times, "Wade Hoefer," Susan Kandel, September 27, 1991

Art in America, "Wade Hoefer at Modernism," Gay Morris, December, 1992

The San Diego Union Tribune, "Contemporary Artist Envisions Imaginary Worlds," Robert L. Pincus, November 4, 1993

The Washington Post, "This Land is Your Land," Ferdinand Protzman,

October 31, 1995

 

 

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

 

1997            Artist in Residence, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM

1992            Artist in Residence, Experimental Workshop, San Francisco, CA

1993            Artist in Residence, Experimental Workshop, San Francisco, CA

1994            Artist in Residence, Experimental Workshop, San Francisco, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2006 Susan Street Fine Art Gallery, Solano Beach, CA

2005 Elins Eagles Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004 Lisa Kurts Gallery, Nashville, TN

             Patricia Faure Gallery,

             Santa Monica Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL

             Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID

             Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada

2003 Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN

             “Wade Hoefer – Manuel Neri”, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID

             Michael Dunev Art Projects, Torroella de Montgri (Spain)

             Galerie Janos, Paris

2002 Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA

             Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL

             Ron Judish Gallery, Denver, CA

             David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO

             Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

             Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC

2001 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

             Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte NC

             Lisa Kurts Gallery, Nashville, TN

2000 Michael Dunev Art Projects, Torroella de Montgri’, Spain

             David Beitzel Gallery, New York

             Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington DC

             John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

             Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis TN

             Miller/Block Gallery, Boston MA

             Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN

1999 Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA

             Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

             David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO

1998 Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

             John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

             Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA

             Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA

1997            "New Monotypes," Monique Knowlton Gallery, NY, NY

             Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC

             David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO

             Jean-Pierre Prebet, Roanne

             Franca Monique Knowlton Gallery, NY

1996            "Multi-panel Landscape Paintings, " Monique Knowlton Gallery

            Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

            Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA

1995            Monique Knowlton Gallery, NY, NY

            Modernism, San Francisco, CA

            Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID

            Thomas Babeor & Co., La Jolla, CA

            Jacques Kaplan, Kent, CT

            Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.

            Galerie Janos, Paris, France

1994            Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA

            Galerie Janos, Paris, France

1993            Soma Gallery, San Diego, CA

            Modernism, San Francisco, CA

1992            Modernism, San Francisco, CA

1991            Patricia Faure, Los Angeles, CA

1990            Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1986            Patricia Faure, Los Angeles, CA

            Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1985            Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR

            Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

            Acme Art, San Francisco, CA

            Gabriella Cardazza, Venice, Italy

1983            Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1981            Tom Luttrell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1978            Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

1976            Eliane Ganz, San Francisco, CA

1975            National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

            Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

 

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