[3][2] In high school, Gangloff began creating large-scale paintings in the attic of an old barn owned by her parents in Amityville, New York.
[1] In an interview with BOMB Magazine, Gangloff states that the images were "always of my friends or people I was hanging out with or liked at school or wanted to tease or get some kind of reaction out of.
"[1] After graduating from Cooper Union in 1997, Gangloff worked as a dish washer in a German restaurant in New Jersey for three months before moving to Bozeman, Montana to live with her older brother.
In her professional career, Hope Gangloff continues to exclusively draw and paint her peers and everyday objects in settings of relative intimacy.
"[5] She has further likened her creative process to rock climbing:An outsider who doesn’t look at a lot of art might not understand why I paint similar things over and over again… But there are always micro movements.
"[6] Combined with subject matter and color, Laura Staugaitis states that "[t]he artist’s strong but gestural lines create defined shapes that are filled with repetitive marks and bright patterns.
Gangloff gives equal textural attention to all areas of the painting, which draws the viewer’s eye to every detail and also contextualizes each portrait sitter in a unique set of surroundings.
[11] In 2017, Gangloff was the inaugural artist for the Cantor Art Center’s Diekman Contemporary Commissions program, which resulted in a solo show and a weeklong residency.