Background
Hope Gangloff was born in 1974, in Amityville, New York, United States. Gangloff has an elder brother.
Hope Gangloff at work.
30 Cooper Sq, New York, NY 10003, United States
The Cooper Union where Hope Gangloff obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1997.
2016
Hope Gangloff working in a studio. Photo by Don Stahl.
30 Cooper Sq, New York, NY 10003, United States
The Cooper Union where Hope Gangloff obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1997.
Hope Gangloff was born in 1974, in Amityville, New York, United States. Gangloff has an elder brother.
Hope Gangloff created her first large-scale paintings while studying in a high school.
After graduation, she entered the Cooper Union and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1997.
Hope Gangloff earned her first money as a dishwasher in one of the restaurants of New Jersey where she worked for three months. Then, she relocated to Bozeman, Montana and found a job at a bronze foundry. Soon, Gangloff moved again, this time to New York City and joined the staff of New Foundry in Greenpoint, Brooklyn as a metal chaser. While working there, Gangloff was invited by a clothing and accessory line, Built by Wendy, to make drawings of movie scenes.
As an artist, Hope Gangloff has shown her works both in solo and group exhibitions around the United States and abroad, including The Netherlands and Italy. She has been an artist in residence at the Cantor Art Center and a cover artist at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The representative of Gangloff’s art in New York City is Susan Inglett Gallery.
Hope Gangloff is an accomplished artist whose works are praised for their vibrant colors and for the sense of peace they transmit.
Gangloff’s artworks are acquired by such permanent collections as the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford among others.
Summer Night in the East Village
Birch Stand Southside of Cheney Cabin
Borrowed Orchids (Study for Airport Painting Reprise)
MacDowell Cheney Cabin in the Winter Super Moon
Icicle Weeds on Monterey Bay/Spring
Monadnock From Cheney Cabin in Winter
Under the Stewartia Tree
Summer Night in Beacon, N.Y.
Rainy Day in Echo Lake/Spring
Fungus Gnats
From MacDowell With Lurve
Fireplace
Study for Downtown L.A. from Echo Lake
Cheney Stove at MacDowell Colony, Valentine's Day
Untitled
#don'tjudge
Couch Surfer
Hope Gangloff chooses the models for her portraits from her peers, friends, and colleagues, so, from people she is familiar with.
Quotations:
"I'm a big fan of portraiture – humans are endlessly entertaining and interesting. I like painting people I know because the familiarity helps relax both the subject and myself. Anyone who has sat for me knows that the first four hours painting will probably be erased completely. It's less stressful when my model already knows that."
"An outsider who doesn’t look at a lot of art might not understand why I paint similar things over and over again… But there are always micro movements. I’m always working through problems. Rock climbers look for little changes in rocks to help them climb and keep going. When I look at a painting, I’m also looking for the move that’s going to set off something else. The whole painting is like a problem I’m trying to solve."
"I try to go into things with total enthusiasm and zero expectations."
"When you’re an artist, you have to be cool with being uncomfortable, pretty much all the time. Your eyes and ears are processing so much information every day. I don’t want to get philosophical, but humans, by nature, are uncomfortable."
Hope Gangloff is quite a reserved person. She prefers to portray other people rather than to be portrayed or photographed herself.
Quotes from others about the person
"Gangloff pushes the boundaries of abstraction and figuration." Neil Vazquez
"Her paintings and drawings make us feel her and her subjects and feel for them as well; they make us feel for ourselves and the period to which we belong. In the midst of the struggles of our current everyday lives, Hope finds both beauty and passion." Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Curator
"Hope is an incredibly talented painter who evokes the 19th and 20th century masters and updates the tradition." Cantor Arts Center Assistant Curator Jennifer Carty
Hope Gangloff is married to a painter Benjamin Degen.
