Grace Hopkins is one of many New England artists whose abstract artwork defies expected New England standards. Hopkins grew up in NYC and is now based in Portland, Maine, with her artist husband and sweet little girl Gigi. Grace shows her work in galleries all over the Northeast. I discovered her work in Cape Cod. Her father, artist Budd Hopkins, is a longtime friend of my in-laws. (I’ll do a post on Budd at some point too.)
Hopkins characterizes her work as abstract photo-paintings. I have included a sampling of her photos from 2005 to the present , so you can its progression. This is how she describes the evolution: ” In the past few years I have been getting closer to my subject matter and minimizing the number of objects in my pictures, essentially zeroing in on what really interests me and excluding everything else.”
2009 South Beach
2009 Europe
2008 Michigan
2008 Maine
2008 Las Vegas
2007 Belize
2006 St. Maarten
2006 Curacao
2005 California
What wonderful color – so saturated. I could see these used as very large pieces in a room.