Violet Hopkins Explained

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]

Further reading

• Tumlir, Jan. " Los Angeles: Drawing in L.A.", The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection - Raisonné. MoMA, New York. 2009: 26 - 35.
• Walleston, Aimee. "Ground Control." Interview online, May 26, 2009.
• Griggs-Saito, Katrina. "Violet Hopkins: Lux, Lumen." The Japan Times, May 29, 2008.
• Patterson, Tom. "A Profusion of Pleasure." Winston-Salem Journal, 31 December 2006.
• Spiegler, Marc. "LA Art Is Here To Stay." The Art Newspaper, 8 December 2006: P.1.v
• Wagner, James. "Violet Hopkins at Foxy Production." jameswagner.com, 7 November 2006.
• Pagel, David. "Summer Sampler Has a Dark Side." The Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2005: E26.
• Finkel, Jori. "First Come the Dealers, and Then the Diplomas." The New York Times, 3 July 2005: 22-23.
• Cotter, Holland. "Dealers Gather at the River, Convenient to Lofts with Bare Walls." The New York Times, 11 March 2005: E46.

Notes and References

1. Jori Finkel (July 3, 2005) "First Come the Dealers, and Then the Diplomas", New York Times. Retrieved 2019-07-20.
2. Web site: Amra Brooks on Violet Hopkins. Brooks. Amra. September 2006. www.artforum.com. en-US. 2019-07-21.
3. Web site: Brian Sholis on Violet Hopkins. www.artforum.com. en-US. 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. https://www.moma.org/artists/28665, "Art and Artists: Violet Hopkins"