Carving Out Time w/ printmaker LaToya Hobbs
LaToya Hobbs returns to Studio Noize! LaToya has been on an amazing run with her latest work since her last time on the podcast. We catch back up with her in hearing all about her exciting show and successes including the phenomenal Carving Time installation that is currently on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art through April 3. She talks about how she was inspired by Kerry James Marshall to create Carving time and all the levels to this amazing piece. We. talk about how much her work has changed, leaning into what she does, and some of her work with Black Women of Print. Warning we get into all the printmaking nitty-gritty and you know your boy JBarber loves that. Listen, subscribe, and share!
Episode 134 topics include:
developing as an artist
importance of drawing
Carving TIme installation
tackling a big project
artistic influence
Kerry James Marshall
Elizabeth Catlett
Black Women of Print
Black family and legacy
Birth of a Mother by LaToya Hobbs
LaToya M. Hobbs is an artist, wife, and mother of two from Little Rock, AR who is currently living and working in Baltimore, MD. She received her BA in Painting from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and MFA in Printmaking from Purdue University.
LaToya’s work deals with figurative imagery that addresses the ideas of beauty, cultural identity, and womanhood as they relate to women of the African Diaspora. She creates a fluid and symbiotic relationship between her printmaking and painting practice producing works that are marked by texture, color and bold patterns.
Her exhibition record includes several national and international exhibits in locations such as the National Art Gallery of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia, Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL, the Community Folk Arts Center in Syracuse, NY, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL and the Sophia Wananmaker Galleries in San Jose, Costa Rica among others.
See More: www.latoyamhobbs.com + LaToya Hobbs IG @latoyahobbs
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