The gallery will be closed from December 21, 2024 through January 6, 2025. We will reopen on Tuesday, January 7th.
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, founded originally as Young Hoffman Gallery in 1976, specializesin international contemporary art in all media, and art that is conceptually, formally, or socio-politically based. From its inception, the gallery has launched emerging artists’ careers. In the seventies, Young Hoffman Gallery was one of the first galleries to offer exhibitions to women artists including Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, and Sylvia Plimack Mangold.
Since 1983, when Rhona Hoffman and Donald Young announced the establishment of separate galleries, Rhona Hoffman Gallery has continued to show young and emerging artists alongside established ones. Among the artists the gallery has exhibited and/or continues to exhibit are Vito Acconci, Derrick Adams, Spencer Finch, Leon Golub, Robert Heinecken, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Sol LeWitt, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Lorna Simpson, Nancy Spero, Richard Tuttle, Carrie Mae Weems, Kehinde Wiley, and Amanda Williams.
Rhona Hoffman Gallery is very active in the Chicago arts community and maintains strong relationships with museums, helping to place important works in their collections and within their programs. Additionally, the gallery gives exposure to artists currently living in Chicago such as, Julia Fish, Judy Ledgerwood, Michael Rakowitz, Richard Rezac, David Schutter, Amanda Williams, and Anne Wilson.
Image: View of Rhona Hoffman Gallery
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This exhibition brings together the work of Giovanni Anselmo, Lucio Pozzi, Edda Renouf, and Richard Tuttle, artists the gallery exhibited in its early years. Each explore material, gesture, and space with distinctive sensitivity. Anselmo harnesses elemental forces, while Tuttle’s playful, erratic forms disrupt conventions of structure. Renouf’s meditative surfaces, shaped by subtle incisions, resonate with Pozzi’s dynamic play of color and composition. United by an embrace of nuance and experimentation, their works reveal the poetic potential of the minimal, where the slightest mark, the boldest gesture, or the quietest presence can transform the experience of seeing.