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[Tiffany Hovendick]

[Artist's Statement]

My name is Tiffany Hovendick, and I am a Studio Artist. For about three years now, I’ve used writing and my hands to render the narratives of the past, present, culturally inflicted, and soft spoken, with the ambition to pay tribute to, to preserve, and to make aware the lives of the silenced but deserved.

There is strength in art, and there is strength in words. As a child, there was strength in neither. Words fell short or were beat, and mark making failed symbolically. I learned early on I didn’t want this for anybody, so I strived to strengthen each; for both are necessary in the development of voice and story. It was recently that I discovered this as the root of my art making and humanity.

When I painted One Nation back in 2020, culture, letting figures voice for their own, and humanity were main qualities observed. Since, these factors continue to serve as the basis for my works, but have also matured into the inclusion of value beyond surface, connective symbolism, and written work. Courses such as Advanced Water Based Media, Advanced Painting, Collage, and American Literature have all contributed to the depth of layers, depiction, dimension, and the voices of figures in my artwork. They have provided inspiration alongside history, service to others, instrumental music, relationships, Schnabel, and Rauschenberg.

By spending forty hours each week researching, taking the time to know somebody, empathizing, stepping back, journalling, and painting, my pieces come to embody a people, a person like a written record or journal, but made by touch and painting: the first words. I could never speak these words, but through writing, I could, and could add their vision in another record of remembrance. I thank my time at Concordia, and family vacations spent at local and out of state museums, for they have helped pave the way to where I am headed.

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