Terry Hoff: Corner

Good Mother Gallery is pleased to present Corner, a solo exhibition by Bay Area-based artist Terry Hoff. For this new presentation of work, Hoff turns inward, meditating on the physical and symbolic geometry of the corner, a site of both containment and expansion. What was once a disciplinary tool in his childhood, a literal corner, used by teachers as punishment, has evolved into a conceptual space. “The corner became a place where my imagination could explode out,” Hoff explains. “Thoughts and ideas bounced off one another.” In this exhibition, Hoff revisits the corner not as a space of shame but as a powerful portal. His new body of work positions the corner as a point of origin, a crucible of energy from which images and forms emerge. 

From his home studio in the sleepy coastal town of Half Moon Bay, Hoff creates works that are grounded in culture and lived experience yet tethered to the unknown. Oceanic rhythms, cartoon logic, hallucinatory humor, and a material curiosity all thread through his practice