Everett Hoffman
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Everett Hoffman is a cross-disciplinary artist and educator based in Austin, TX. He has been a visiting artist at several U.S. universities, including the Rhode Island School of Design, Tyler School of Art, and Appalachian State University. In 2024, Everett was a finalist for the Art Jewelry Forum Young Artist Award, where he exhibited with Galerie Platina at Handwerk und Design in Munich, Germany. From 2020 to 2023, he was an artist-in-residence at Penland School of Craft. He also completed a year-long residency at Arrowmont School of Art and Craft (2018-19) and a three-month residency at the Baltimore Jewelry Center (2019). Everett's work has appeared in BmoreArt, Metalsmith, and American Craft. He has contributed writings to Metalsmith and Art Jewelry Forum and has been invited to speak at the JMGA Conference in Perth, Australia, and the Museum of Art and Design during New York Jewelry Week. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Art and Design in New York, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art in Virginia Beach, the Contemporary Craft Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; Sienna Patti Gallery, Lennox, MA; Metal Museum, Memphis, TN; and the Benaki Museum in Athens,
Greece. He earned his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2018 and his BFA from Boise State University in 2013. Everett’s current body of work examines contemporary forms of protection and iconographic communication, illuminated through the use of lights, sculptural forms, and body adornment
ARTIST STATEMENT
Engaging in a multidisciplinary approach of making, my work reimagines the function of ornamentation and its relationship to the body. I approach new materials and found objects with the eye of a jeweler, highlighting and exploiting the subtle, and often invisible, links between material histories and their connection to identity. Using the language of adornment and jewelry in my work I propose a new lens for viewing function. In doing so I highlight the bodies’ impact on objects and call into to question the role these objects play in shaping our understanding of identity—An identity that is never singular, constantly evolving, and more often than not contradictory and confusing.