Glenice Hoffmann

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sculptural ceramics 2026

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In studying art history and the move to abstraction, a Guggenheim visit drew Glenice to the stark, linear qualities of modernists and she became inspired by the geometric forms of Kandinsky in particular.  She seeks to create eye-catching, hand-built decorative ceramics, exploring the power and strength of simplicity through their sharpness and directness. She focuses on line and shape -- shapes which appear to “change in space” as one moves around them – and on the tension between positive and negative space.

 

A significant life change initiated a profound change in practice, and the making process became a way to find stillness and quiet in a frenetic and uncertain world. Her attention no longer focuses directly on the final object but more widely on its creation—the patient rhythm of hand-building, the meditative process of burnishing, and the grounding connection with the clay. 

 

The work Glenice presents is influenced by that approach. While the pieces possess clean, abstract qualities, they also carry a sense of the calm and harmony that she cultivated during their making. The stark, natural, tactile surfaces—textured, burnished and polished—requiring only a single, energy-conscious firing, are designed to be touched and rearranged, and invite a quiet, sensory experience. Through these forms, Glenice hopes to offer the viewer not just a visual object, but a moment of the same quiet contemplation that brought them into being.

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