Elizabeth Hohimer 
1991

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

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​Hohimer’s practice is an ongoing dialog between materials, memory and self. Her sensitive perceptions of color and place are filtered into her hand woven 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, 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. She clarifies her weavings as woven paintings. Hohimer carries an inherent trust through channeling sublime feelings that come from moments such as; impressions of the sky, passing landscapes, love or longing, while making there will be a transference and merging of these feelings into the woven paintings being produced. 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. Hohimer’s colors are created largely from collected clays that she finds in the places that inspire her practice, but she used other natural elements in her dyes like ash and flowers and sometimes mixes in dyes or paint. Her woven paintings are made on a 16 harness European floor loom. The dimensions she is able to create in a single cloth are produced using a double cloth technique. While primarily working from her loom, she carries the needs of most artists, a need to achieve the most emotional resonance through any means. She fuses her desires and remembered experiences into weavings, work on paper, sculpture, dance and installation. Hohimer's work carries a lingering atmospheric nostalgia due to the materials that she carefully chooses to imbue aura of place to viewers. Titles often reference a place, a mood in the high desert or a river bank with rifts of Didion or indie lyrics twined in. 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. Hohimer says,

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“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 worked for a studio artist in LA, learning what a weaving studio practice truly looked like from the best. Then in 2017 came back to Texas, this time Marfa, beginning her own studio practice in the expansive Far West Texas desert.  In 2023 she lived and made two bodies of work from Taos NM that were inspired greatly by the light and landscapes from her experience there. Hohimer is now based in Austin, Texas.​

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Elizabeth is currently open to new work opportunities, future happenings and collaborations please contact her directly  at, elizabethmhohimer@gmail.com

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