Peter Hopkins

Peter P. Hopkins (* 1955 in Framingham , Massachusetts ), who lives and works in Stamford , Connecticut , is an American painter .

life and work

Hopkins studied from 1978 to 1982 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and completed his master's degree at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . He exhibits internationally. In 1990 Hopkins participated in the exhibition "The (Un) making of nature" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and in 1992 at documenta IX in Kassel.

“Bewitchingly beautiful, shiny metallic and iridescent shimmering, Peter Hopkins' pictures immediately cast a spell over the viewer. But the beauty of his pictures is deceptive and leads deep into the depths of human existence. Crisis and decay are the themes of the Brooklyn-based artist. The materials he uses are not actually colors either. He uses contaminated water, aggressive cleaning agents, poisonous waste products or perfumed oils. Amazingly, baroque-looking, highly artificial images and objects are created. "

- Jan Hoet , 2008

At the documenta he showed three large-format panel paintings, each 240 × 180 cm with the title Capital Project: Covered Sites (D1, D2, D3). It was fabric artfully soaked with dirty water that he stretched onto canvas. Another panel painting had the title Perfume Site (D4), a hologram and a plastic fabric soaked with perfume with a perfume bottle on a canvas measuring 200 × 150 cm.

literature

Annegret Laabs (ed.): Everyday ideologies: Zeitllauf. Life paths . Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen , Magdeburg, 2010 ISBN 978-3-941057-07-4 (exhibition catalog)
Peter Weibel (Ed.): Pittura, Immedia: Painting in the 90s . New gallery at the Landesmuseum Joanneum and Künstlerhaus Graz, Verlag Ritter, Klagenfurt, 1995 (exhibition catalog)

Web links

Peter P. Hopkins website
Peter Hopkins at artfacts.net

Individual evidence

↑ Documenta IX: Kassel, June 13–20. September 1992 - Catalog in three volumes, Volume 1, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-89322-380-0 , p. 157.
^ Peter Hopkins website , accessed February 4, 2017.
↑ Jan Hoet via Peter Hopkins , accessed February 4, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Hopkins, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hopkins, Peter P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Framingham , Massachusetts

[1] Documenta IX: Kassel, June 13–20. September 1992 - Catalog in three volumes, Volume 1, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-89322-380-0 , p. 157.

[2] Peter Hopkins website , accessed February 4, 2017.

[3] Jan Hoet via Peter Hopkins , accessed February 4, 2017.