About

Jeremy Hoffeld was born in 1974 in Brooklyn, New York and raised in an
art-centric family. He currently resides and works in Manhattan. After studying jazz at the New School, under the wing of legendary alto saxophonist Arnie Lawrence, Jeremy moved to Boston to live in a formerly hippy commune and to have an existential crisis. In 2003 he returned with force to his childhood passion and refuge: drawing and painting.

In Cambridge, Massachusetts, Jeremy studied with David Andrus, an eccentric and passionate artist. Later in New York at the Art Students League he honed his technique with the help of renowned portrait artists Daniel Greene and Ellen Eagle. His early work focused on the portrait, striving to capture the humanity of his subjects with a penetrating directness.

Recent paintings have moved away from overt representation, navigating shapes and color in space, exploring inner landscapes through emotive abstract expression. Jeremy embraces the idea that painting should occur in time like music in performance- with a feeling of velocity, tension and release resulting in a spontaneous and improvisational approach. His current work explores color harmonies and dissonances with shapes analogous to melody, conveying emotions and symbols which he feels reluctant to limit with labels.

Reviews

Woodstock Times-Smart Art, April 2009