ERICKSON FINE ART GALLERY
324 Healdsburg Avenue, Healdsburg, California
WADE HOEFER
Wade Hoefer Original oil on canvas, Framed 78 1/2 x 78 1/2"
Wade Hoefer Original oil on canvas, Framed 78 1/2 x 78 1/2"
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
Page 3.
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