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Article: Margo Hoff at Bill Bace. (New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- February 1, 1994
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Margo Hoff's recent exhibition was a mini-retrospective of sorts, covering about 20 years' work. The artist, who is now in her 80s, studied in Chicago in the 1930s and first achieved prominence there, then settled in New York in the early 1960s.
Hoff's works are canvas collages. She begins by applying several coats of acrylic to raw, unstretched canvas, building up with layers of watercolorlike transparency a surface of variegated luminosity. Then she cuts up the canvas to use as elements in the collage. The shapes are generally geometrical-quadrilaterals, circles, triangles, etc.--though sometimes they are more figurative, reminiscent of the shapes in Matisse's ...