I fear words.
I fear power.
I fear words that are manipulated to create power.
I fear the powerful who control fear through words.

As an installation artist, I explore work that involves political control and accountability. I am concerned with the political maneuvering of perception and it’s power to manipulate, obfuscate and propagandize. With this work, I seek to exploit mediated information and involve the viewer in accessing alternate points of view. Issues of control, access, and media, address our desensitization toward social and political issues

Bio

Hovey grew up in a region called the Northeast Kingdom - a rural area in Vermont, where she learned many of the hand-crafts and construction techniques that are present in her current installations.

After studying Computer Science at the University of Vermont, Hovey transferred to the School of Visual Arts in New York to study Graphic Design. While attending SVA, she was awarded the prestigious Bea Feitler Scholarship, a full tuition scholarship awarded to one design student for their final year of study.

In 2002, after working many years as a professional designer, Hovey returned to study sculpture at San Francisco State University where she received her MFA in 2005. Hovey was nominated as the Art department’s Hood Recipient and graduated with honors.

Post graduation Hovey was awarded a year long Headlands Center for the Arts MFA artist in residency fellowship. Hovey maintained an affiliate studio at the Headlands Center for the Arts through July 2007.

Over the last year, Hovey received one of two American artist fellowships to participate in the Terra Summer Residency in Giverny, France. She also received a residency in Arizona through the Frank Lloyd Wright Taliesan Artist Residency Program. She currently resides in Mill Valley, California, teaches at Dominican University and works in the Fine Art department at San Francisco State University.

Recently, Hovey was awarded a career development grant from the Marin Arts Council. Currently, she is in residence at the Prairie Center of the Artsin Peoria, Illinois working on site specific installations. Hovey will then be in residence in Enschede, Netherlands for three months.