NANCY HOFFMAN GALLERY opened in 1972, among the first handful of galleries to open in SoHo. Many of the artists have been represented by the gallery since 1972, others have joined slowly over the years. No geographical bias exists in the group of artists. One artist lives and works in Australia, three in England, one in the South of France and several throughout this country.
	NICOLAS AFRICANO creates sculpture in cast glass of the human figure; his subject of the past few years has been his wife and muse, Rebecca.
	ILAN AVERBUCH, a sculptor of monumental works in wood, lead, stone and glass, sometimes represents images from nature, at other times parts of architectural structures.
	DAVID BIERK pays homage to the masters of art history in his work painted in his own style, filled with gusto, broadstrokes, vibrant palette and framed to contextually juxapose art history with a contemporary material such as steel or concrete.
	CAROLYN BRADY is known for her large-scale representational watercolors of still-lifes, gardens and flowers, recently of images of sumptuous, antique filled interior spaces.
	HOWARD BUCHWALD is an abstract painter committed to pushing the boundaries of abstraction into new territories after penetrating the picture plane with circles and ellipses throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
	MARK CALDERON works in a wide range of media--bronze, modified cement and glass, to create his wall sculptures and free-standing pieces.
	RUPERT DEESE is an artist whose ideas and concerns for the earth manifest in conceptual explorations of river beds depicted on shaped canvases.
	MARK DEPMAN works in many media. Using video, photography, digital prints and computer technology Depman expands the definition of still life in his new cibachromes.
	DON EDDY, one of the first-generation realists--known for his paintings of cars, parking lots, wrecking yards and works of storefront windows--continues to explore light and reflection through examining nature and still-life.
	VIOLA FREY is known for her larger-than-life monumental ceramic figures as well as heraldic tondo plates and energized pastel drawings.
	JUAN GONZALEZ's paintings and drawings are on an intimate scale, a magic realist, a painter of dreams.
	MICHAEL GREGORY paints still-life paintings, silos in black and white and icon-like tulips and orchids on wood panels, infused with the air of the Old Masters.
	GREGORY HALILI paints enchanted gouache miniatures in 1x1 inch to 4x12 inch formats. In this small scale Halili creates an entire world filled with light, atmosphere and mood with meticulous precision and immense detail.
	ROHAN HARRIS is a sculptor of small iconic images in wood, wire and mesh.
	LYNN McCARTY works in unique materials, oil on aluminum panels, in small scale and large scale, developing abstract paintings with sensual surfaces, in personal palette by building layers of paint with amoeboid shapes pulsing with life.
	LUCY MACKENZIE creates small-scale, jewel-like oil paintings of still-life images, people, boats, isolated images filled with calm.
	SUSAN NORRIE's favorite expression is "the intelligence of paint," a subject that infuses all of her sumptuously surfaced works from each series, though her new pieces incorporate video, photography and wall text.
	JOHN OKULICK, known for his illusionistic wall sculptures made in wood also makes free-standing metal sculptures.
	FRANK OWEN's paintings of the '80s were energized surfaces created by pouring acrylic paint resembling geological cross-sections, in his new paintings, "skins of paint" utilize new techniques to address a dialogue between nature and civilization.
	PETER PLAGENS's work has long been involved with figure-ground relationship, the artist fills a monochromatic field with idiosyncratic drawing marks as well as with his signature, small, pure, geometric jewel-like shape.
	RICHARD PURDY works in wax encaustic on top of computer generated drawings, inspired by the beauty of particle physics which inform his pieces.
	JOSEPH RAFFAEL, known for his large oil paintings of lilies and fish, paints nature in all its splendors in watercolor, oil and acrylic.
	BILL RICHARDS creates graphite drawings based on the intricacies of nature's fern swamps, he places the milkweed pod as an abstracted object midst intertwining grasses.
	YUKO SHIRAISHI's abstract oil paintings juxtapose different tones of color. A light blue "defers" to a darker blue, her surfaces are quiet, subtle, elegant, her gesture subdued, yet painterly.
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