These days, Denver artist Katie Hoffman rarely knows what she's painting, and that's the way she likes it. Her unusual technique began five years ago: "I'd been working on a large canvas, and nothing was going right," she says. "The more I tried to exert my will onto the canvas, the more it seemed to resist. I was ready to toss it, there was nothing to lose, so in desperation I applied cheesecloth and more paint to obscure what was there. more interesting than anything I could have contrived to put there." Her intuitive paintings reflect "waking dreams" - haunting, achingly familiar images evoking that which can be felt but never spoken.
Stephen Kiesling