Nancy Hoehn is a studio artist based in Augusta, Georgia. Her work has been shown in numerous galleries and exhibitions. These included the Boulder Art (Colorado), the Red Clay Survey (Alabama), the Memphis Arts Festival (Tennessee), and the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art (Georgia). She is included in the permanent collection of the Morris Museum of Art (Augusta, Georgia) and the State of Georgia Collection, among others. She studied art for four years at the University of South Carolina.
Statement
"Every person is a holy place" serves as the guiding principle of my practice, shaping an inquiry into existence and the beings that inhabit it. My work spans figurative, portrait, and abstract forms, exploring the delicate tension between structure and choice, containment and liberation.
Geometric forms, squares, rectangles, and circles anchor my compositions, providing stability within dynamic imagery. These shapes act as symbols of the decisions, frameworks, and boundaries that both constrain and liberate the individual. Within these structures, figures navigate doors, windows, and cracks, hinting at possibilities for passage, escape, or transformation. Architectural elements such as columns and cubes often extend off the wall, inviting the viewers to move around the pieces, to experience multiple perspectives, and to inhabit the spaces I construct.
The palette is rooted in neutral tones, browns, grays, and earth hues, punctuated by cadmium orange or cadmium red. These vibrant accents guide attention, marking or obscuring pathways, and reflecting the complex interplay between freedom and limitation, visibility and concealment.