‘Fresh Paint’ | Exhibition | Margaret Winslow | Delaware Art Museum
Create! Magazine | Curated by Margaret Winslow, Curator of Contemporary Art, Delaware Art Museum
Exhibition Dates
Exhibition Dates Online: December 15, 2023 - January 31, 2024 ABOUT THE EXHIBIT
Colleen Hoffenbacker, an AI-augmented painter known for her materially resolved floral works, is featured in Fresh Paint, a juried virtual exhibition presented by Create! Magazine. Curated by Margaret Winslow, Chief Curator of the Delaware Art Museum, the show highlights 30 contemporary painters redefining the medium through innovation, tradition, and transformation.
Fresh Paint invites viewers to rediscover the possibilities of painting through the eyes and hands of 30 contemporary artists. From impasto brushwork to color-field abstraction, the exhibition celebrates the medium’s enduring capacity for reinvention. Painting here is not a static tradition but a dynamic language of self-expression and material inquiry — one that spans genre, surface, and intention.
Selected works reveal “the nuanced and complex ways painting can change depending on who is holding the brush.” In this context, Hoffenbacker’s AI-enhanced floral paintings reveal how digital abstraction and painterly revision can coalesce into a materially resolved practice — reshaping image-making through hybrid visual logic.
EXHIBITION STATEMENT
“Painting is not a monolith; it is a medium that can be used in countless ways, which is one of the reasons it has stood the test of time. It moves across genre, from abstraction to realism to expressionism; and across subject matter, from figurative to landscape to the inner workings of our psyche. Paint transforms. It can be mixed with other mediums, used on two-dimensional and three-dimensional surfaces, and, when rendered in a certain way, can create a window into a world beyond our imagination. ”
Artist Statement
“My process begins with digitally inflected floral compositions — visual fragments that I reshape through oil-based revision. Each painting becomes a negotiation between inherited form and digitally mediated attention. The result is not a replication of nature, but a re-authored image that reflects how perception, memory, and technology now co-compose what we see.”
ARTISTS
Honar Ali, Valentine Aprile, Duga Bobanovic-sikirica, Renée Bouchard, Colleen Hoffenbacker, Jen Brown, Maria Brzozowska, Jessica Cook, Francine Davis, Sophia Day, Enrico Donaruma, Stuart Fineman, Julia Hacker, Rebecca Harrell, Elizabeth Heller, Hezron, Emma Hill, Wiley Holton, Devan Horton, Nitin Kakkar, Shawn Marshall, Kelly Mccallum, Lauren Packard, Marcia Reed, Sarupa Sidaarth, Jennifer Small, Amanda Smith, Lawre Stone, John Westmark, Dganit Zauberman
