Cali Hobgood

Cali Hobgood is an award-winning, widely collected artist and is represented in public, private and corporate collections and museums around the country. Cali studied photography at the University of Illinois and lives in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. She’s been the proprietor of her art photography business since 1986. Cali’s images are hand-colored black and white photographs, which she prints in a silver-process darkroom and then paints with oils. Her techniques in photographing and hand-coloring, when combined with her high-contrast printing style, produce images in union with the simple, conceptual vision that is the basis of her work. Between the process of printing the negative individually and then hand-coloring the photograph, each piece in an edition is unique. The signed and numbered images are produced in editions from five to two hundred and fifty. Right now I think my pieces have the essence of a stage set. I can control the subject with my camera and make it more of what it is. Isolating these everyday items gives them an iconic nature that moves the images from the everyday to a moment from our lives.