installation | Breathing Vessels – Future Reflection/Sister Past
AM HOCH, Future Reflection/Sister Past (Young Boat series), 2014, mixed media installation at SetUp Art Fair 2015AM HOCH, Future Reflection/Sister Past (Young Boat series), DETAIL, painted mirrors, 2015AM HOCH,Future Reflection Sister Past (Young Boat series), DETAIL, three painted mirrors, 2015AM HOCH, Future Reflection/SisterPast (Young Boat series), DETAIL, leafy branch, 2015
installation | Breathing Vessels – Here Now Am
A. M. HOCH, Here Now Am (Breathing Vessel), studio installation, mixed media including oil on resin-coated fabric with embedded wires; painted mirror; branches; stack of masking tape; approximately 224 x 244 cm (88 x 96 inches), 2014A. M. HOCH, Here Now Am (Breathing Vessel), DETAIL, oil on resin-coated fabric with embedded wires, 2014AM HOCH, Here Now Am (Breathing Vessel), DETAIL, painted mirror, 2014
Breathing
paintings
A. M. HOCH, Big Breath, oil on canvas, approximately 203 x 152.5 cm (80 x 60 inches, 2014A. M. HOCH, Every Breath is Counted (#1), oil on canvas, approximately 126 x 104 cm (49.5 x 41 inches), 2014A. M. HOCH, Every Breath is Counted (#2), oil on canvas, approximately 126 x 104 cm, (49.5 x 41 inches), 2014A. M. HOCH, Every Breath is Counted (#3), oil on canvas, approximately 126 x 104 cm, (49.5 x 41 inches), 2014A. M. HOCH, Little Breath, oil on canvas, approximately, 32 x 20 cm (12.5 x 8 inches), 2009
Breathers
drawings and paintings, 1984-86
A. M. HOCH, Two and Half Breathers, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 inches, 1986 A. M. HOCH, Six Breathers, oil on canvas, 48 x 66 inches, 1986
A. M. HOCH, Four Breathers (Bright Yellow), oil on canvas, 72.5 x 54 inches, 1986A. M. HOCH, Three Breathers, oil on canvas, 36 inches x 48 inches, 1987
A. M. HOCH, One Breather, (detail), oil on canvas, 72 x 48 inches, 1986 A. M. Hoch, Four Breathers, oil on paper mounted on canvas, 18 x 26 inches, 1985A. M. HOCH, Three Kinds of Mouths, oil on paper mounted on canvas, 13.5 x 11.25, 18 x 12, 13 x 11 inches, 1985
A. M. HOCH, untitled diptych, oil on paper mounted on canvas, 27 x 20 inches and 27 x 20 inches, 1985A. M. HOCH, Figure in Circle, oil on paper mounted on canvas, approximately 30 inches x 30 inches, 1985
A. M. HOCH, Figure with Birds, oil on paper, 40 x 50 inches, 1985
Winged Breather, gouache on paperOne Breather with Weird Feet, gouache on paperOne Breather with Blue Triangle, gouache on paperTwo Breathers, charcoal on paperOne Breather with Foot Up, charcoal on paperOne Breather with Birds, pencil on paperOne Breather, pencil on paper
In The Breathers, 1984–1986, a series of drawings and paintings on paper and canvas, I was looking for a representation of a human being at its purest and most primal level, a sense of the self stripped of culture and relations, stripped to the level of breathing. This was my first experience of using a text—Rilke’s Duino Elegies—as a backstory, in a nonlinear, non-parallel way, though in subsequent series, I preferred to work with my own original text.
“Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders? And even if one of them suddenly pressed me against his heart, I should fade in the strength of his stronger existence. For Beauty’s nothing but beginning of Terror we’re still just able to bear, and why we adore it so is because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Each single angel is terrible. …”
from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies, translated from the German by J. B. Leishman and Stephen Spender
