Oil on canvas; 48 x 48 inches; 120 x 120 cm; 2022
oil on canvas 48 x 48 inches; 120 cm x 120 cm; 2021
"The circle-triangle-square is Sengai's picture of the universe. The circle represents the infinite, and the infinite is at the basis of all beings. But the infinite in itself is formless. We humans endowed with senses and intellect demand tangible forms. Hence a triangle. The triangle is the beginning of all forms. Out of it first comes the square. A square is the triangle doubled. This doubling process goes on infinitely and we have the multitudinosity of things...the universe.”
oil on canvas 48 x 48 inches, 120 cm x 120 cm 2020
This oil painting was inspired by the song "Angels" by “the XX” (from their album coexist).
A luminescent piece of imagination and mystery, the piece gives the viewer the opportunity to tune in and get lost within their own dreams.
Oil on canvas 48 x 72 inches; 122 x 180 cm; 2018
pencil on paper 10 x 10 inches 2019
digital print, size as you like 2019
inspired by Hansu You and his Song: “Beholding the Light”. and parts of his lyrics like : “I'm walking in gold….True through the night…With a prayer in my heart ….As the night turns from silver into gold…
A majestic Bird or an Angel raises from the material ashes towards the ethereal rays of the bursting sun.
digital print, size varies 2020
Two Muses are guarding the Cosmic Soul
digital print, size varies 2020
print, size varies 2020
torn and fractured with Angels
digital print, size varies 2020
print, 11 x 11 inches 2019
digital print, size can vary
Monotype 5" x 7 " 12 x 17 cm
Series : "Dreams" 2006
Monotype 5" x 7 " 12 x 17 cm
Series : "Dreams" 2006
Monotype 5" x 7 " 12 x 17 cm
Series : "Dreams" 2006
pencil on paper; magazine clippings 5" x 7 " 12 x 17 cm
Series : "Dreams" 2006
pencil on paper; magazine clippings 5" x 7 " 12 x 17 cm
Series : "Dreams" 2006
monotype, magazine clipping 8" x 11" 2004
monotype 8" x 11" 21 x 28 cm 2005
Dream Series
monotype 5" x 7 " 12 x 17 cm 2006
dream series
monotype, magazine clipping 5" x 7" 12cm x 17cm 2006
dream series
monotype, magazine clipping 5" x 7" 12cm x 17cm 2006
dream series
monotype, magazine clipping 5" x 7" 12cm x 17cm 2006
dream series
monotype, magazine clipping 8" x 11" 21cm x 28 cm 2006
dream series
monotype, magazine clipping, pencil 5" x 7" 12cm x 17cm 2006
dream series
Collage 8.5"x 11.5 inches 21x30cm 2008
Collage 8.5"x 11.5" 21x30cm 2008
Collage 8.5"x 11.5" 21x30cm 2008
Collage 8.5"x 11.5" 21x30cm 2008
pencil on paper 8" x 11" 2004
pencil on paper 8" 11" 2004
pencil on paper 8" x 11 " 2004
ollage on paper 2001
Collage on paper 12" x 16" 30cm x 40cm 2001
Collage on paper 12" x 16" 30cm x 40cm 2001
Inspired by the glossy city she lives in, Doro Hofmann uses John Milton's "Paradise Lost", the book of the "dictionary of Angels" and Kate Lauren's "Fallen" series to create this excessive, sensual and kaleidoscopic, beauty and decay glorifying mystical series.
Quote from "A Subconscious Universe" by Christine Thur-Anh Vu
".... A very secular, however more contemporary, treatment of other Christian devotional
painting aesthetics, the Fallen Angels series alludes to the Biblical account of the fall of
the archangel Lucifer to perdition. To complicate this conceptual study, Hofmann also
considers the 17th Century epic poem, Paradise Lost, by John Milton as inspiration for
her series. Like the paintings in Lost Icons, Fallen Angels also uses thematic interplay
between ostensibly religious imagery and human desires. Furthering this examination,
Hofmann leaves the viewer to question the consequences of submitting to such
misguided desires or temptations. While such “fall” would insinuate a bleak infinity of
metaphorical fire and brimstone, Hofmann, similar to Milton, leaves to open evaluation
if that would actually happen. If we are mislead in our understanding of our world and
universe, who is ultimately responsible for our misdeeds? If we fought those who
mislead us, as Lucifer did in Paradise Lost, are we blameworthy? And if so, why?"
Oil on canvas 48” x 72” 122 x 180 cm 2018
Oil on canvas 48” x 72” 122 x 180 cm 2019
Oil on canvas 48" x 72" 122 x 180 cm 2016
The Genisis inspired by John Milton
Oil on canvas 20" x 32" x cm 2017
The Genisis inspired by John Milton
Oil on canvas 48" x 72" 122x180 cm 2010
The Genisis inspired by John Milton
Oil on canvas 48" x 72" 122 x 180 cm 2010
The Genisis inspired by John Milton
Oil on canvas 24" x 30" 60 x 76 cm 2009
Oil on canvas 24" x 30" 60 x 76 cm 2009
Oil on canvas 52" x 71" 135 x 180 cm 2008
Oil on canvas 24" x 30" 60 x 76 cm 2009
pencil on paper 12" x 17" 30 x 44cm 2009
Oil on canvas 44" x 65" 112 x 165 cm 2008
Oil on canvas 50" x 75" 130 x 190 cm 2008
Oil on canvas 25" x 30" 63 x 76 cm 2008
pencil on paper 9 "x 12 " 2008
pencil on paper 9 "x 12" 2008
pencil on paper 12" x 15" 30x38cm 2009
print behind acrylic glass 18" x 24" 60 x 45 cm 2009
print on acrylic glass 8" x 10" 20 x 25 cm 2009
print behind acrylic glass 18" x 24" 60 x 45 cm 2009
digital print mounted behind acrylic glass
size upon demand
2012
The Genisis inspired by John Milton
digital print mounted behind acrylic glass
size upon demand
2009
print on acrylic glass 8" x 10" 20 x 25 cm 2009
print on acrylic glass 8" x 12" 20 x 30 cm 2009
digital print mounted behind acrylic glass size upon demand 2012
The Genisis inspired by John Milton
Lost Icons examines the history of iconography through the prism of today’s commercial culture and cult of celebrity. Referencing sources that go back to the Byzantine era, Hofmann calls attention to the similarities between compositional strategies employed in classical religious worship to imagery drawn from our current celebrity-fueled society.
“Throughout history, iconic structures have exploited our fundamental longing to connect with someone or something bigger than ourselves,” says Hofmann. It’s a form of seduction she recognizes in today’s icon-driven marketing of products, brands, athletes, politicians – just about everything. Doro Hofmann portrays today's celebrities as the ‘holy figures’ of today who provide context and meaning for our lives even as they exist mainly to serve the impulses of our consumer culture.“
Critical of our fixation with glitz, glamour and “perfectly synthesized worlds,” Hofmann’s work often possess a grotesque element that reveals the repetitive, tedious nature of the overly idealized. Models are trapped in shimmering diamonds to cubist effect. Young blue-haired starlets pose, Madonna-esque, against an undulating digital-age cosmos. And elements such as migrating birds and lipstick serve to undercut the illusion of utopia.
oil on canvas 9" x 12"
hand pleated fabric, lights, light-frame-box 18"x 24" 40 x 60 cm 2007
Oil on canvas; 9"x12"
hand pleated fabric, lights, frame-box over all 18" x 24" 40 x 60cm 2007
oil on canvas 18"x 24" 40x60cm 2007
oil on canvas 18"x 24" 40x60cm 2007
oil on canvas 18"x 24" 40x60cm 2007
oil on canvas 9"x 12" 23x30cm 2007
oil on canvas 60" x 52" 150 x 130cm 2006
oil on canvas 34"x 40" 86x100cm 2007
oil on canvas 42"x 60" 105x150cm 2007
Oil on canvas 60" x 67 " 150 x 170 cm 2007
pencil on paper 10"x 14" 25x35cm 2009
Pencil on Paper 9" x 12" 22.5cm x 30.5cm 2007
Pencil on Paper 9" x 12" 22.5cm x 30.5cm 2007
My Professor, Franz Ackerman, hold a speech with Professor Erwin Gross, infront the Lipstick Chapel
Oil on canvas; wood, fabrics, newspaper clippings, lamps and electrics, Estee Lauder lipsticks, molded wax lipsticks, disco-ball, hand embroidered pillows.
Outside dimension: 8 1/2ft. x 8 1/2ft x 8 1/2ft
260 x 260 x 260 cm
displayed at "Top 05" : Master Students Exhibition of the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste Karlsruhe, at the Akademie in Karlsruhe.
Doro Hofmann’s Lost Icons Series and her room installation "Believe" and "Lipstick Chapel" examine the history of iconography through the prism of today’s commercial culture and cult of celebrity. Referencing sources that go back to the Byzantine era, Hofmann calls attention to the similarities between compositional strategies employed in classical religious worship to imagery drawn from our current celebrity-fueled society.
“Throughout history, iconic structures have exploited our fundamental longing to connect with someone or something bigger than ourselves,” says Hofmann. It’s a form of seduction she recognizes in today’s icon-driven marketing of products, brands, athletes, politicians – just about everything. Says Cabral, “Hofmann portrays celebrities as the ‘holy figures’ of today who provide context and meaning for our lives even as they exist mainly to serve the impulses of our consumer culture.“
Hofmann appropriates pop-culture artifacts from the glittering, venal worlds of fashion, advertising, celebrity obsession, and television news and contrasts them with more sober imagery found in places like National Geographic or Time Magazine. She mixes these divergent stories to create collage-like oil paintings and cheeky installations that owe a particular nod to Dadaist Hannah Hoech, who, Hofmann says, “used cut-outs to create powerful and striking contrasts that opened people’s eyes and minds.”
Critical of our fixation with glitz, glamour and “perfectly synthesized worlds,” Hofmann’s work often possess a grotesque element that reveals the repetitive, tedious nature of the overly idealized. Models are trapped in shimmering diamonds to cubist effect. Young blue-haired starlets pose, Madonna-esque, against an undulating digital-age cosmos. And elements such as migrating birds and lipstick serve to undercut the illusion of utopia.
Hofmann’s work culminates with the satirical “Lipstick Chapel”. A playful shrine to the ubiquitous make-up accessory, this installation reflects our obsession with glamour and takes it to its logical, if absurd extreme. “It's lipstick as icon, lipstick as deity!” enthuses Cabral. “As a fresh, irreverent, and critical look at how and what we worship, this piece perfectly sums up the ideas and approach that inspired the Icon exhibit.”
digital print behind acrylic glass 2016
size upon demand ( a max of 18" x 24 " )
digital print behind acrylic glass 2015
size upon demand ( a max of 18" x 24 " )
digital print behind acrylic glass
size upon demand (max. is at 18" x 24" 60 x 45 cm 20015
digital print behind acrylic glass
size upon demand (max. is at 18" x 24" 60 x 45 cm 20015
digital print behind acrylic glass
size upon demand (max. is at 18" x 24" 60 x 45 cm 20015
digital print behind acrylic glass 2016
digital print behind acrylic glass
size upon demand 20016
digital print behind acrylic glass 2015
digital print behind acrylic glass size upon demand 20014
digital print behind acrylic glass size upon demand 2014
Print behind acrylic glass 12"x15.75" 30x40cm 2010
digital print behind acrylic glass size upon demand 2010
Print behind acrylic glass dimension vary to your order 2010
digital print behind acrylic glass 2014
digital print behind acrylic glass size upon demand 2009
print behind acrylic glass 8"x 12" 20x30cm 2009
digital print behind acrylic glass size by the demand
digital print behind acrylic glass size upon demand 2009
print behind acrylic glass size upon demand 8"x 10" 20x25cm 2009
print on acrylic glass 8"x 10" 20x25cm 2009
print on acrylic glass size upon demand2009
print behind acrylic glass dimension upon request 2009
print behind acrylic glass dimension upon demand 2009
print behind acrylic glass dimension upon demand 2014
print behind acrylic glass dimension upon demand 2014
print behind acrylic glass dimension upon demand 2009
print behind acrylic glass dimension upon demand 2014
Doro Hofmann's early work is influenced by pop art and is often a social critical comment on the contrasting omnipresent Pop-Icon-culture of consumerism in the two competing continents she takes turns living : Europe and the United States of America.
oil on canvas 60" x 90" 150cm x 230cm 2003
child soldiers in Liberia contrast fashion idols of the west
state of Liberia 2003, while the west indulges in Liberian Diamonds the people of Liberia are oppressed by war and corruption, forced to eat dog meat.
oil on canvas 43" x 86" 110cm x 220cm 2003
oil on canvas 40" x 60" 100cm x 150cm 2004
lipstick cross: oil on canvas 47"x 70" 120x180cm 2004
oil on canvas 60" x 90" 150cm x 230cm 2003
will the new world force the old world over the edge?
oil on canvas 60" x 90" 150cm x 230cm 2004
oil on canvas 60" x 60" 150cm x 150cm 2004
oil on canvas 60" x 60" 150cm x 150cm 2003
oil on wooden panel 12" x 12" 30cm x 30cm 2002
oil on canvas 28" x 47" 70 x 120cm 2004
Silver Surfer oil on canvas 27" x 39" 70x100cm 2003
mixed fabric 60" x 70" 150cm x 175cm 2003
Oil on canvas 60" x 90" 150cm x 230cm 2002
oil on canvas 43" x 86" 110cm x 220cm 2002
Acylic on wall 10ft x 20ft 3 m x 5 m 2003
“Murals” at Pop-o-Matic, Los Angeles
Doro Hofmann is fascinated with the effects that are created when a visitor steps in to her created world.
This allows for a 3 dimensional, all overtaking experience brought to perfection by elements like sound and scent.
Inspired by an oil spill in the mediterranean sea, due to the bombing of the power plant of Jiyeh in Lebanon in 2006, that send source less Lebanese crews with buckets to help clean up ancient sites like the Byblos harbor.
(During the Israel-Lebanon Conflict in 2006, the Israeli Air Force had bombed the Lebanese power plant and heavy fuel oil soon spilled across borders on to the beaches of Beirut and other countries. To this day Israel has declined to help pay for the massive cleanup necessary and countries like Japan and Netherlands carried a big burden of the costs..)
Displayed during the Graduated Students Exhibition November 2006
left: "The Art of Faking";
mixed media: Trophy, Trophy-Plaques, Newspaper Articles, ribbon, "oil catcher"
right: "The North Slope" oil on canvas, diptych, raising awareness on oil drilling in Alaska at the region called "The North Slope"
"sponsor's" of the price "for best performance in beach cleaning".
Displayed at DCA Fine Art in Santa Monica, California 2008
Installation view, mixed media, sound and scent.
Oposite site of the "Believe" Chapel holds a cross with images of today's celebrated Icon's, including Pope Johannes.
part of "Believe" Lip Stick Chapel for Consumerism
Lip Stick Chapel 2005
Oil on canvas; wood, fabrics, newspaper clippings, lamps and electrics, Estee Lauder lipsticks, molded wax lipsticks, disco-ball, hand embroidered pillows.
Outside dimension: 8 1/2ft. x 8 1/2ft x 8 1/2ft
260 x 260 x 260 cm
displayed at "Top 05" : Master Students Exhibition of the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste Karlsruhe, at the Akademie in Karlsruhe.
oil on canvas, golden frame; c-prints, framed
Displayed at the annual, juried Winter Exhibition at
Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste Karlsruhe, December 2004
total: 78' x 98' gesamt: 200cm x 250cm
oil on canvas, golden frame; acrylic and oil on canvas; wood, lamp, lipstick-caps, acrylic glass
total: 78' x 98' x 60' gesamt: 200 x 250 x 150 cm
Displayed at "Top 05" : Master Students Exhibition of the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste Karlsruhe, at the Kunstverein Heidelberg. (Center for the Arts Heidelberg) Germany.
George W Bush powered by Haliburton and god blesses America.
oil on canvas, fashion magazine clippings, pencil on paper, migrating geese edited and looped video, by Doro Hofmann, screened to the opposite wall.
Installation view. Overall dimension: 120" x 100" 450 x 240cm 2005
Oil on canvas; acrylic on card-board; color pencil on paper.
43"x68" 110x175cm over all dimensions 98" x 98" 250cm x 250cm 2004
oil on canvas, 48 x 71 inches
Painting, Oil on Canvas; Size: 34 x 42 inches
Painting, Oil on Canvas; Size: 60 x 50 inches
Painting, Oil on Canvas; Size: 60 x 50 inches
Painting, Oil on Canvas; Size: 120 x 50 inches
Painting: Oil on Canvas; Seize: 18 x 24 inches
Painting: Oil on Canvas; Seize: 18 x 24 inches
Painting: Oil on Canvas; Seize: 18 x 24 inches
Oil on Canvas
Azza-zel’s name and description is found in various ancient scriptures like Enoche’s Lore; a fallen angel, who taught mankind how to fashion weapons; and women how to beautify their eyes and such..
Oil on Canvas
Azza is the name of a fallen angel, who’s punishment is to constantly fall in eternity. The description of his deed’s is found in ancient scripture and the “Dictionary of Angels”.
Oil on Canvas.
Falling Angels was inspired by the rich and the extravagant; party people of Los Angeles. Their “religion” seems to be worshiping the glitz and glamor of this City of rising and falling souls. I caught and froze the moment of all possibilities, suspended in the air, ripe with diamonds, fashion brands and spirit; it is uncertain if they will rise or fall.
Oil on Canvas
Gadreel, is a fallen angel, who is said to have seduced Eva, in Paradise, to take and eat the fruit of knowledge.
Oil on Canvas
Beliar, is a fallen angel, who is mentioned in many ancient Scriptures, as well as in John Milton’s, Paradise Lost.
Oil on Canvas
This painting was inspired by a quote from John Milton‘s, Paradise Lost. “Above the Abyss, hovering like a Dove, was the Muse, … “before the world was born, into chaos.”
Digital & Oil on canvas.
This painting was inspired by John Milton’s Paradise Lost, describing the moment when Lucifer rose from his sleep after the fall.
Oil on Canvas
The rising was inspired by John Milton, Paradise Lost; the scene describing when Lucifer rose from the lake of fire after his fall.
looking closer at the details of this painting, you would find scenes painted after Doreé’s illustrations for Paradise Lost.
Oil on Canvas
This painting was inspired by John Milton, Paradise Lost, quoting the sentence “far into chaos the world unborn”. Referring to Michelangelo‘s painting “The Creation of Adam”; in the painting, the angelic spirit is igniting the world to be created out of chaos and star dust.
Oil on Canvas 48 x 72 inches
The painting was inspired by the painting by William Blake, “The Ancient of Days”. The Golden Compass is often cited as gods tool creating the world out of chaos.
Oil on Canvas
This oil painting was a commission by Rochelle Karidis’, dad, for her and A.J. McLean’s wedding.
Oil on Canvas
This painting was inspired by John Milton’s, Paradise Lost. Angels, Crystals and Ashes were falling from heaven, and down from the sea of crystals, before the throne of god.
Oil on Canvas
The three muses are watching over the chaos of stardust and diamonds, soon to be fashioned in to the earth.
Oil on Canvas 48 x 72 inches
This painting visualizes Plato’s ideas about the universe, being a Cosmic Soul rotating around its own axis.
Oil on Canvas 72 x 48 inches
This painting depicts the Cosmic Soul, and was equally inspired by a beautiful song and it’s lyrics by Emmit Fenn, with the same title: Lost in Space.
…. and leaving without them.
Oil on Canvas 48 x 48 inches
This painting was inspired by a song by “the XX”, with a similar name. The dreamy, beautiful song, and it’s beautiful lyrics inspired me to in cooperate the Cosmic Soul’s; of the Palladian sisters.
Oil on Canvas 36 x 62 inches
This painting was created in 2020, it depicts the cosmic soul, watching what was unfolding on earth, from the macro cosmic above, drifting away in thoughts, and inner contemplation, the third eye opening.
Oil on Canvas 48 x 48 inches
The seven sisters of the Pleiades, mentioned in many different ancient cultures and scriptures; the circle, the square and the triangle, are the origin of all things, time and space, and the universe.
Oil on Canvas 48 x 48 inches
In this painting, the Cosmic Soal is awakened through the grid of the 64 sided tetrahedron, describing time in space in sacred geometry.
“The 64 tetrahedron grid is the first harmonic of the cuboctahedron geometry and what eventually becomes, with scalar octave growth, the infinite holofractographic vacuum structure of the entire universe,”
Oil on Canvas 24 x 32 inches
This painting is my personal reflection of the state of the world; being watched from above; by the Pleiadian Sisters. So above, So below.
In a messed up fashion the continent’s are portrait with seemingly westerners looking light skin featuring faces, while their attire seem to hint at traditional clothing of each continents cultural background. Less audible voices even seemingly disappearing in the night sky, we gaze upon the ecliptic, Orion and Taurus, the Pleiades and the Haydes, drawing the position of the golden gate to the divine. On the eclipse, the zodiacs traveling across them for eternity, the vastness of the Milky Way; our ever in circles rotating Universe.
