In Gangloff's latest paintings, student protesters at Cooper Union (her alma mater) loom large. With sculptor Masnyj she discusses her path of becoming a…

New York based artist Hope Gangloff paints expressive and visually striking portraits with emotional depth. First covered here, her portraits primarily depict family, friends and other artists in intimate, vaguely erotic and melancholy scenes. Gangloff has described her paintings as caricatures- rather than capturing her subjects' likeness, she focuses on their details separately and intensely, and exaggerates their features like hands and feet.

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Hope Gangloff’s work stands out amongst traditional pieces of art and has progressively altered familiar museum spaces in order to incite engagement with new and present day artistic ideas. The New York City native and self-proclaimed “ham-fisted writer and a casual jerk” is primarily known for creating vivid and animated oil portraits of her friends in order to capture her perspective on the culture of American life. Gangloff’s study of art began at Cooper Union in New York and has since…

The newest exhibit at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth opened on Sunday. "Women Painting Women" will be on view at the Modern through September 25. And

Hope Gangloff's art directs yourattention to times in our lives we've all experienced. Moments withgreat friends or times spent alone in thought, times that seemed topass too quickly and are now only tiny little slivers in our memory'ssea of change. Even moments we look back upon and wonder why we evenrecall them at all. Hope describes them here with beautiful talentand enlightens our senses with a fantastic sense of nostalgia.Working with everything from ball point pens to oil paint…