Addyson Hoey is a mixed-media based artist from Sapulpa, Oklahoma. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Arkansas with an emphasis in Drawing + Photography in 2023. In 2025, she earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in Visual Arts from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Hoey’s practice shuffles the digital realm back into physical material , to reflect the ever-increasing presence of technology within our daily lives; just as our own experiences occur in the physical space, are processed through the digital realm, and then remerge in lived spaces. Her studio practice starts with digital images of her own physical paintings, which she transfers back onto wood panels. She then sands the surfaces to reveal the physicality of the medium, ultimately merging the digital and physical material. In her work, the sanding process becomes an exploration of where destruction and chance are generative, in their capacity to explore space and texture that is not possible on a flat screen.

Through abstraction and the physicality of paint, Hoey uses the unreality of digital spaces as a metaphor for the illusion of space, where, through paint and physical material, she resurfaces the image in lived space as a way to process our own experiences. In her work, a digital collage, transferred into a wood material, allows her to insert herself into the space, reflecting on how we treat the digital, see through it, and where she aligns herself with it.

In her work, Hoey uses the digital effect, the drop shadow, as primary content to reveal invented spaces for the viewer to navigate and understand space created on a two-dimensional plane. She is particularly interested in the drop shadow, as it reflects the cast shadow in the real world and how it’s produced digitally on the screen with no “real” light source; it’s all an illusion. Hoey aims to merge high art, painting’s illusionistic history in High Renaissance and the trompe l’oeil technique, with low art, digital imaging software, where shadows serve the same function of creating space, although misrepresenting real-world laws. Her work encourages the viewer to consider a different hierarchy of focus and takes on the arrangement of surfaces and space, rather than the requirements of the physical world.