HOEFER, Wade

Wade Hoefer has said of his paintings that he wishes them to remain “a memory of something that is faint, oblique and intangible.” Hoefer’s way of calling up such memories opens up a myriad of worlds for the viewer. These landscapes are evocative of the golden landscapes depicted in numerous historical paintings of Italy and America. The fact that they are uninhabited is both enriching and disquieting. They inspire contemplation and meditation as they draw the viewer inside through Hoefer’s frequently used device of framing his landscapes with ghostly painted borders that display similar or contrasting landscapes. A sense of the epic and the cinematic in Hoefer’s paintings encourages the viewer to inhabit these paintings in tranquil solitude and locate within one’s imagination a place outside of worldly considerations.

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