Audrey Hope
Audrey Hope is an artist whose work examines our ritualized relationships to nature and objects, approaching topics such as tourism, collecting, and pilgrimage with the aim to reveal them as both life-affirming and fraught. Her artworks emerge from photographs, unfolding through found material, textiles and metal.
Hope's recent series of bronze and mixed-media sculptures, titled ""Disappointed Tourist,"" was exhibited at Åplus, Berlin; the Lightner Museum in St. Augustine, FL; After Hours Gallery, Los Angeles; and the Cornell Fine Arts Museum in Winter Park, FL. Other exhibition venues for her work include: kijidome, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; OSLO10, Basel; Centro de las Artes San Agustín, Oaxaca; WOOBA, Austin; DXIX Projects, Los Angeles; Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas; SOMA Mexico, CDMX; and Actual Size Los Angeles.
Hope holds an MFA from the University of California, San Diego. In 2014 she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in association with Tufts University. She is currently Assistant Professor of Art at Rollins College.
Disappointed Tourist, 2023. Mixed-media and bronze sculptures on artist-designed pedestals. Installation view at the Lightner Museum, St. Augustine, Florida. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Finger Rosary, 2023. Bronze, porcelain, fur, finger rosary, resin, microbeads, skin from the snake that lives in artist's father's greenhouse, 5 x 16 x 8 inches. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Shroud for the Petrified Wood Niche to Understanding at the Tree of Life, 2022. Bronze, oil paint, pigment print on canvas, fur, 6 x 4 x 5 inches. Photo by Joshua Schaedel.
Lancet Window Paravan, 2022. Bronze, 7 x 2 x 6 inches. Photo by Joshua Schaedel.
Disappointed Tourist Installation view with artist-designed pedestals on view at After Hours Gallery, Los Angeles, as part of two person exhibition, WET WOOL with Lila de Magalhaes, 2022. Photo by Joshua Schaedel.
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