Violet Hopkins

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Violet Hopkins is an American painter. She holds a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia. [1] Hopkins work often draws inspiration from found images of the natural and scientific world, using ink, pencil and paint to transform them into color-rich, dynamic scenes that incorporate both abstract and figurative elements.

Amra Brooks, in Artforum called her 2006 "Chromatophoric" exhibition at David Kordansky Gallery, "magical." [2]

An exhibition in New York 2009 was based around the 1977 Voyager space program. [3] Time Out concluded that "Violet Hopkins's latest paintings won't blow your mind... [but] her project acknowledges art's challenge to interact with a vast, ever-changing world." [4]

Several of Hopkins' works reside in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. [5]

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References

  1. Jori Finkel (July 3, 2005) "First Come the Dealers, and Then the Diplomas", New York Times. Retrieved 2019-07-20.
  2. Brooks, Amra (September 2006). "Amra Brooks on Violet Hopkins". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
  3. "Brian Sholis on Violet Hopkins". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
  4. Merrily Kerr (June 25, 2009) Violet Hopkins, "Afraid He Might Be Mistaken for a Centaur", Time Out. Retrieved 2013-06-07.
  5. "Art and Artists: Violet Hopkins" MoMA.com. Retrieved 2013-06-07.

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