Elizabeth Hohimer 
1991

Elizabeth Hohimer is an artist from Texas, born in 1991.  

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Elizabeth's practice is an ongoing dialog between materials, memory and self. Her sensitive perceptions of color and place are filtered into her handwoven paintings through formal decisions involving restraint, rhythm and chance. Her works are sensual abstractions from experiences that come with grand emotion. 

Working from the memory of emotions, Elizabeth Hohimer dives into the shared psychological landscapes that certain colors and materials provide. Her weavings have made a  place for her work that is outside the traditional ideas surrounding that method of production and inside the visual world of painting. Elizabeth clarifies her weavings as woven paintings. Elizabeth carries an inherent trust that through channeling sublime feelings and recalling such lived experiences while making there will be a transference and merging of these feeling into the woven paintings being produce. The transcendental qualities behind the making of and viewing of her work, create a connection to some of the early abstract expressionist female painters. She continues to imbue color field concepts into her method of warp staining seemingly with more and more clarity through each body of work she builds. Her woven paintings are made on a 16 harness European floor loom.

While primarily working from her loom, she carries the needs of most artist, a need to achieve the most emotional resonance through any means.Elizabeth Hohimer also realizes her personal experiences through the realms of sculpture using natural fibers and steel that come from place based experiences in West Texas  as well as printmaking that defies her time based practice of weaving and is a return to self the way sketching might be considered for some. She fuses her desires and remembered experiences into weavings, work on paper, sculpture, dance and installation. Hohimer's work carry a lingering atmospheric nostalgia due to the materials that she carefully chooses to imbue aura of place to viewers. The suspended passage of time that takes place where the horizon line is visible is integral for clarity to be found for Elizabeth. Process choices within production give time and space for the artist to re-harmonize dissonance, gaining potency. A sense of ethereal, allegorical, philosophical tendencies that are not grounded or interested in reality of the present are integrated into her practice.

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 “I carry my personal experiences into my practice and I carry all the places I have been with me. The emotional relief and release once felt from landscapes, sublime moments, loss of love, or awe-  by me is put into the physical object of cloth through the touch of my hands. My work is autobiographical but also serves as portals that allow viewers into the emotional, psychological or geological place I reference”. ​

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Elizabeth came of age in the Texas hill country. She grew up dancing, eventually with a small contemporary ballet school company in NYC. After going to California College of Arts to study weaving she came back to Texas, this time Marfa, begin her own studio practice in the expansive Far West Texas desert. She has considered Marfa TX home since 2017.  In 2023 she lived and made two bodies of work from Taos NM that were inspired greatly by the passing landscapes from her experience there. 

Currently, Hohimer is looking for her next location to work from.

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please contact Evan Feldman with Gerald Peters Contemporary with inquiries about Elizabeth Hohimer's work.    efeldman@gpgallery.com

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