Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia is pleased to present Ditta Baron Hoeber: Inscapes, an exhibition of new works selected from the artist’s project of the same name. Produced from 2017 to 2021, the full Inscapes series comprises over sixty hand-made accordion books and additional images which depict Hoeber’s live-work space, arranged in what she terms “photographic sequences.”

The subject of Inscapes is Hoeber’s daily experience of her home and studio, the space where she spends the majority of her time. Home is both subject and stage. The daily new-ness of Hoeber’s surroundings is marked by spectral, changing light — midday brazen, or inky at nighttime. There is a Monet-like quality in her dedication to depicting light and her nearly obsessive revisiting of the same subjects. Windows and walls are her haystacks. The meaning of an image shifts with its place in the sequence, contingent on what comes before or after. With color, line, and imagery, Hoeber constructs passages of visually depicted rhythm, rhyme, and assonance. The spaces depicted in these photographs are, like language, at once denotative and connotative, allusive and literal.

The exhibition is accompanied by a publication entitled “Ditta Baron Hoeber: Inscapes.” Contributors include Olga Dekalo, Daniel Gerwin, Olivia Jia, Quentin Morris, Sid Sachs, Meredith Sellers, and Richard Torchia. The publication is available at the gallery or write dbhoeber3@gmail.com.

Ditta Baron Hoeber (b. 1942) lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. Armed with a keen eye, a camera lens, and the tools of a book artist, the artist-poet has produced works for six decades that meditate upon the nature of sight. Her photographs, drawings, poems, and artist books number in the thousands, and the majority of her projects have never been shown.

Hoeber’s works have been presented in solo exhibitions at Moore College of Art and Design, The Print Center, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, the Abington Arts Center in Jenkintown, PA, and the University of Houston Clear Lake. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, PA, Arcadia University Art Gallery in Glenside, PA, Amos Eno Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space and The Center for Book Arts in New York City. Collections include the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the University of Pennsylvania Library Artist Book Collection, the Museum of Modern Art Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Library, Oberlin College Art Library, Swarthmore College Library, and Chelsea College of Art & Design.

Hoeber’s poems have appeared in a number of publications including the American Poetry Review, Juxtaprose, Pank, Burningword Literary Journal, Contemporary American Voices, Noon, Nthposition (London), and the American Journal of Poetry which nominated her poem for a Pushcart Prize.