Herb has been living in New York and having fun with art for over 15 years. From kinetic sculptures for the Blue Man Group to industrial lamps for Runaway Bride – if he can amuse others with metal, he will. He has shot photo-ops of dignitaries at the New York Stock Exchange and photographed seeds using a nuclear reactor. Herb's work is in the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and in galleries and shops around the country. He has helped advertising, publishing and video clients make pills, watches and fashion models look appealing. He has even starting teaching people how to cast pewter, take pinhole pictures and print cyanotype and gum bichromate prints.
Now Herb is bringing you pewter snack food. The phenomenon started with a simple cracker (You can see the enthusiasm for this product at the cracker tracker). The snack food line has expanded to cheese crackers and ice cream sandwiches. The 31st President may have fed millions of people and invented the CARE package, but this POTUS has fed the imagination of thousands of people who should never take a bite of his food.
Herb is also touring the show does time stand still? The phenomenon started with a simple x-ray image and grew to using a nuclear reactor as a camera, pinhole cameras, century-old printing techniques, and a love of discovery. The processes that photographers used over a century ago were not considered art. So, the photographers worked hard to find techniques that were expressive, rather than simply reproductive. Herb's gum prints use watercolors such as Winsor Newton, MaimeriBlu, and Grumbacher to render their hues. The cyanotypes use a Prussian blue derived from iron salts. The works are anachronisms combining historical processes and modern technology to explore the wonderment of our world.
To contact Herb call 212.280.4104 or email herb at herbhoover.com
E X H I B I T I O N S
1978 Museum of Natural History, Greenville, DE
1988 Student / Faculty Show, Newark, DE
1989 Red Show, Newark, DE
1989 Kunstwollen I, Newark, DE
1990 Kunstwollen II, Newark, DE
1991 BFA Senior Show, Newark, DE
1991 Earth Day Performace, Washington, DC
1993 25x25, Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
1994 25x25, Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
1995 25x25, Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
1995 And Bob's Your Uncle, New York, NY
1996 Mixing Messages, Cooper Hewitt, New York, NY
1997 Public Works, Arts Alliance, Newark, DE
1999 Benner Township Fall Festival, Bellefonte, PA
2002 Memorial Show, Arts Alliance, Newark, DE
2002 Holiday Show, Neuveau, Baltimore, MD
2003 Gallery 360, Minneapolis, MN
2003 Krappy Kamera V, Soho Photo, New York, NY
2004 Alternative Process I, Soho Photo, New York, NY
2005 Krappy Kamera VII, Soho Photo, New York, NY
2005 ...And Death, Newspace Gallery, Manchester, CT
2006 Mandate: A Postmortem Analysis, Gravity Lounge, Charlottesville, VA
2006 does time stand still? Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY [SOLO SHOW]
2006 Krappy Kamera VIII, Soho Photo, New York, NY
2006 SECCA Art-O-Mat, Winston-Salem, NC
2006 Technogaia Paint & Body, Pittsburgh, PA
2006 does time stand still? Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT
2006 does time stand still? Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY
2007 Camera Works, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT
2007 does time stand still? Art Center at Old Forge, Old Forge, NY
2007 Art-O-Mat 10th Anniversary Retrospective, SEED, Winston-Salem, NC
TBD does time stand still? Lauritzen Gardens, Omaha, NE
1999-2005 Blue Man Group, Luxor Theater, Las Vegas, NV
2005-present Blue Man Group, Venetian Theater, Las Vegas, NV
2004-present Blue Man Group, Theater am Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany
2004-present Art-O-Mat, multiple cities, USA & UK
B I B L I O G R A P H Y
1990 Kunstwollen by Nora Mulhern, The Review, Newark, DE
1996 Mixing Messages by Ellen Lupton; ISBN: 1-5689-099-X
1997 Gifts, Time Out New York
1998 Runaway Bride, Paramount Pictures
2005 City Lights, by Louis Jacobson, The Washington City Paper
2005 Krappy Kamera VII, Camera Arts Magazine
2005 Pinhole camera article, Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung
2006 Photogravure, Pop•In New York
2006 Cyanotypes, New York Sun
2006 Thank You For Not Smoking, ArtNews
2006 This Art's Got Pull, Arrive, Amtrak's onboard magazine.
2007 Selling Snack-Size Art, Winston Salem Monthly
2007 Impulse Buy, Jane Magazine
T E A C H I N G
1990 Photo I, Teaching Assistant, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
1991 Color Photo I, Teaching Assistant, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2002 Kids & Kameras, YWCA of Greenwich, CT [CANCELLED]
E D U C A T I O N
1991 BFA Photography, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
1992 NYU Film Production Course, New York, NY
1992 Intern, Blue Man Group, New York, NY
1993 Intern, Meghan Boody, New York, NY
2004 Photogravure, Lothar Osterburg, New York, NY
