Alli Hoag’s artistic practice is concerned with themes of magic. Seeing magic as the desire to connect with the world outside of our perceptual and cognitive abilities, she attempts to create moments where one can believe that distance is overcome. Alli works across mediums of glass, installation, video, performance and digital technology to investigate this uniquely human desire, and to reveal the simultaneous lightness and heaviness that is created when the imagined or invisible is labored into the physical realm.
Alli completed her BFA degree in Glass at University of Hawaii at Manoa, and graduated from New York State College of Ceramics in 2012. After graduation, she served as Adjunct Professor, teaching in both Sculpture and Glass.
Alli has developed her work internationally through residencies abroad at Cité internationale des Arts in Paris, France and S12 Galleri og Verksted in Bergen, Norway, where she first collaborated with Tinna Thorsteinsdóttir in the performance Cry Piano.
She has exhibited both internationally and nationally, with solo exhibitions recently at Urbanglass, New York and upcoming at University of North Georgia in 2017. She was recognized as a 2015 Emerging Artist by the Glass Art Society, and currently is serving as Head of the Glass Program at Bowling Green State University.
Alli Hoag and Tinna Thorsteinsdóttir work across sound, sculpture, and performance in their collaborative known as Bylta. Bylta premiered, in a performance self-titled Bylta, at Corning Museum of Glass on December 17, 2015.
www.allihoag.com
Alli completed her BFA degree in Glass at University of Hawaii at Manoa, and graduated from New York State College of Ceramics in 2012. After graduation, she served as Adjunct Professor, teaching in both Sculpture and Glass.
Alli has developed her work internationally through residencies abroad at Cité internationale des Arts in Paris, France and S12 Galleri og Verksted in Bergen, Norway, where she first collaborated with Tinna Thorsteinsdóttir in the performance Cry Piano.
She has exhibited both internationally and nationally, with solo exhibitions recently at Urbanglass, New York and upcoming at University of North Georgia in 2017. She was recognized as a 2015 Emerging Artist by the Glass Art Society, and currently is serving as Head of the Glass Program at Bowling Green State University.
Alli Hoag and Tinna Thorsteinsdóttir work across sound, sculpture, and performance in their collaborative known as Bylta. Bylta premiered, in a performance self-titled Bylta, at Corning Museum of Glass on December 17, 2015.
www.allihoag.com