Elizabeth Hohimer 
1991

Elizabeth Hohimer is an artist from Texas, born in 1991. Her woven paintings are made on a 16 harness European floor loom.

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Elizabeth's practice is bound through the skilled tradition of weaving and 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 emotion, Hohimer dives into the shared psychological landscapes that certain colors and materials provide. Through the practice of weaving  Hohimer has made a clear path and place for her work that is outside of the traditional craft and inside the visual world of painting due to the transcendental qualities of her work as well as the color field concepts that influence her method of warp staining. She clarifies her work as woven paintings. Hohimer is an abstract artist using the methods and means of the loom for production. 

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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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Hohimer was born in a region of Texas that is referred to as, The Pine Curtain, allowing the notion of landscapes connotations to be instilled in her at a very early age. Elizabeth came of age in the Texas hill country. She grew up dancing, eventually with a small contemporary ballet school company in NYC. fter going to California College of Arts to study weaving under Josh Faught she came  back to Texas to begin her own studio practice in the expansive West Texas desert. She has considered Marfa TX home since 2017.  In 2023 she made two bodies of work from Taos NM  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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