Lee Hoag is a multi-media artist based in Western New York. He uses household and industrial objects to create mixed-media assemblage sculptures. His current work is about transformation.
Lee Hoag is a multi-media artist based in Western New York. He uses household and industrial objects to create mixed-media assemblage sculptures. His current work is about transformation.
Hoag studied at San Francisco Art Institute with renowned artists Judith Linhares, Tom Holland, Franklin Williams, Carlos Villa, Sam Tchakalian, Hassel Smith, Robert Hudson and William Geis. He received a BFA in 1979.
In the 1980’s, Hoag trained as an ASL interpreter at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT/NTID). He worked for some 30 years as an interpreter in mostly educational settings, which proved important in subsequent years. Language and meaning have played a key role in his artwork of the past 14 years.
Hoag’s sculptures have garnered awards in numerous juried exhibitions. He has exhibited throughout the state of New York, nationally in several states, both East and West, as well as internationally in Leipzig and London.
Rebecca Rafferty wrote of Hoag’s work in City Newspaper (April, 2015): “This theft of function is ironic enough, but there is humor also in applying a skillful, handcrafted element to factory-produced, ‘readymade’ materials. Hoag is interested in the slippery status not only of material objects and their function, but also of assigned meaning.”
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