“Abandon in Place,” a massive 8½ feet x 12 feet, is an evocative combination of images drawn from different locations. The totaled car is from a photo Hoffman shot in New York. The background is Cape Canaveral, the surfers are on the beach in New Smyrna.
Sometimes one likes to boast, just a little bit. In the case of Vero Beach Magazine, whose business is introducing the people, places and events of Vero Beach to a wide audience, perhaps it is acceptable for a thrill of pride to tiptoe into these pages when good things happen as the result of a story.
A little over two years ago, in its February 2007 issue, the magazine published an article about the career of Martin Hoffman, a Vero Beach resident who had gained renown in the art world of the 1970s for his realist paintings. The article, titled “The Many Moods of Martin Hoffman,” caught the eye of John Henry, executive director of the Flint Institute of Art in Flint, Mich. Henry was well-acquainted with at least one of the artist’s works, a portrait of Andy Warhol and his pet dachshund (“Andy and Archie”) that has been in the collection of the Flint Institute since 1990. And John Henry is intimately familiar with Vero Beach, having served as executive director of the Center for the Arts (now the Vero Beach Museum of Art) from 1986 to 1996.
Read the entire article in the April 2009 issue
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