Dianne Hoffman is a mixed media artist with a primary focus in salvaged materials and repurposed components. Her assemblage works portray small worlds of allegory, playful metaphors and personal, storied sentiments. She has exhibited extensively throughout the Bay Area and beyond and her work can be found in private collections worldwide. She maintains an abundant workspace at Arc Studios and Gallery in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco.

For this exhibition Dianne has created a new series inspired by her recent travels utilizing recycled objects and vintage photographs of foreign cities, countryside crossings, architectural wonders and various forms of transportation capable of taking us there.

Nostalgic memories caught at a glimpse usher us through dimensional portals where we may briefly reappear as an extra sipping coffee in the cinematic background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, or as a rippled water reflection under the tunnel’s bridge.

Our rotating world stands still in these captured, reflective moments reminding us that our lives may revolve around our individuality, but we remain unified in our hopeful longing, sense of adventure and exploration of new experiences.