New works are gicleé photographs printed on canvas. Printed by the infamous David Fick in Joshua Tree. Some of the works were manipulated before printing and all were lavished with acrylics and pastels. This is a real departure and fusion evolving and merging mediums. These images were first captured on the Wilcox property on the…
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Perry is featured artist for July at Santa Barbara Arts… exhibiting new multimedia on canvas
The show goes up first Thursday at Santa Barbara Arts. This woodpecker will be there if it doesn’t sell first. It is a gicleé on canvas, photograph of a woodpecker from the Wilcox property, above the ocean. Then, I retouched it with acrylics and pastels. This is a 30×30 canvas, unframed, unstretched for sale as…
June 17 Wedding Day in Santa Barbara, California
Doug and I got to the courthouse steps at 10 til 7. There was no one there. After another half an hour went by people started showing up. We were first through the door. Below you’ll find the first two pictures of my beautiful partner and then the other couples waiting in line to be…
New QUEER stamp approved.
Get em while they’re legal. Send your celebratory mail. Also if the mail artist world is looking to partake in a good cause… buy a sheet of stamps, and send mail art postcards. 50% of the proceeds from the stamps will go to Equality California. Now you have two designs to choose from.
Annie Sprinkle blesses queer stamp by magentaRaven
I emailed Annie Sprinkle yesterday because I knew she had just got married again and again and again and plans to wed again, with the same person 🙂 She wrote me back to my surprise, as celebrities often don’t write back. So, today I asked for her blessing on the new queerly gay stamp that…
Buddhas and Birds and Buddhas Abide
Creating a few exciting mosaics incorporating newly created handmade tiles fresh from the kiln. Preparing for two shows in southern California. The first show is on April 5th here in Santa Barbara at The Frameworks Caruso-Woods Contemporary Art Gallery for their annual Buddha Abides show. The second show is a solo exhibition at The 29…
The Road to Wonder Valley
WOW. Thank you to Massif Pictures for a beautiful clip of a beautiful place with so many beautiful people… REALLY… To view the trailer click on the Road to Wonder Valley Trailer. For those who don’t know, I was interviewed last year for a film, about the artists that are living in the high desert….
New Book, Eight Years in Wonder Valley
MagentaRaven is publishing a new book, printed on semi matte paper, entitled 8 Years in Wonder Valley. 38 of the best photographs from eight years of documentation by yours truly, Perry Hoffman Images of wild birds, owls, coyotes, scorpions, snakes and rusty metal… and fire. I have just emailed friends with a special…
Dream
A friend of ours, Jill Katz, sent me this dream of hers: “The four of us were at a house that Shirley was exorcizing a spirit from the house that lived in the throw rugs and she was eventually successful because one of the throw rugs became a person and then disappeared. Doug was lounging…
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