Monday, October 16th, 2023
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Vanessa Hoheb
Vanessa Hoheb is the founder and director of The American Artists’ Hand Archive.
She is documenting, in bronze, life castings of the hands of many of America’s most influential visual artists. The Archive is a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts and a recipient of The Rockefeller Brothers Fund Grant. The 34 bronzes are currently on exhibit at the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center in Tarrytown, NY.
Her apprenticeship began at age 17 in the New York sculpture studio of her father, sculptor Bruce Hoheb. Mastering the skills and techniques of sculptural enlarging, mold-making, and casting, she worked with Willem deKooning, Louise Nevelson, and Jasper Johns.
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she made molds and masters of original objects from the museum’s collection for reproduction and curatorial study.
Vanessa led the Hoheb Studios team responsible for restoring the skin of the Statue of Liberty. She made molds over damaged areas where corrosion had punctured holes in the copper surface.
She taught mold-making and casting at Pratt and lectures at Marist and SVA.
Vanessa joined Polich Tallix foundry as the technical liaison for the artists whose work was cast and fabricated there. She also managed the restoration and conservation divisions during her seventeen years at the foundry.
She currently oversees the production of works for Frank Stella, Mary Frank, and William Tucker
https://www.vanessahoheb.com/
Helaine Soller
Exhibits
• Museum Exhibitions: The Long Island Museum of Art, Queens Museum, Bronx Museum, Canajoharie Museum & Library, Museum of Anthropology of the People of NY, Exit Art, and PS1.
• in the collection: the Library of Congress, Washington DC.
• In the collection: the National Museum of Women in the Arts Archives, Washington DC.
• Exhibits include: 18 solo exhibitions, and over 100 exhibitions.
• Recent Solo Exhibitions: The Galleries at Citigroup Center Midtown NY, Berkeley College Gallery Manhattan NY, T49 NY, Joseph Addabbo Federal Building NY
• Included in: CLARA Web Directory of the National Museum of Women in the Arts and Contemporary Woman Artist Files of the Miriam Shapiro Archives on Woman Artists Rutgers University
• Exhibits Curated and Juried by: Amy Winter, Frances Holly Shen Chaves, Faith Ringgold, Lucy Lippard, Dore Ashton, Patterson Simms, and Frank Mason.
• Included in: over 35 corporate and private collections
Awards and Grants
• Individual Artist Initiative 2008, award sponsored by the Queens Council on the Arts, funded by NEA and JP Morgan Chase.
• NEA Grant, WIA Lecture Series Coordinator, Business of Art for Artists.
• Awards in Graphic Design
Honors
• Art Business News “Emerging Artist” 2008.
• Recipient of several Art Fellowship residencies to Skidmore College.
• La Galleria - Second Prize, Painting
Education
• Queens College - Master of Science in Art Education.
• Pratt Institute - Bachelor of Fine Art in Advertising Design.
• Studied with Jacob Lawrence - New School.
• Master Classes: Jerome Witkin and Eric Fischl.
• CUE Art Foundation - selected for Professional Development Program
Organizations
• Women in the Arts Foundation, Coordinating Board Member
• National Association of Women Artists, Women’s Caucus for Art
• Art Students League, Long Island City Artists
https://www.helainesoller.com/
