Art Opening: James Hoff at Kunsthall Oslo

James Hoff (born 1975, USA) received his BA in Political Science from Indiana University in 1998 and has been working with sound and performance since 2003. His recent solo exhibitions include Milking the Flat Cow at Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, and I’m Already a Has-Been at VI, VII in Oslo. Hoff is also co-founder (with Miriam Katzeff) of Primary Information, a non-profit publisher devoted to printing artists’ books and multiples by artists.Drop Shadow is an exhibition of new work by artists James Hoff and Anders Smebye. Hoff will cut open the walls of the gallery in a physical rendering of the processes of the Robert Morris Worm, the first destructive internet virus to propagate ‘in the wild’. Smebye will present an alphabet of two metre-tall runic figures cut from patinated, corroded metal and felted wool. The title of the show is a signwriter’s term for the painted shadow behind a letter, and Hoff and Smebye both, in different ways, work with text as physical material, language as image. The exhibition will be running from August 23rd through September 29th.More info here:http://www.kunsthalloslo.no/?p=1182