Hopper Prize Journal: Insights Into Contemporary Art

Rebecca Kaufman

Kaufman on new projects in textiles, ceramic handbuilding, and tactile bookmaking, using painting to reflect on addictive & invasive visual technologies & exploring the notion of consent across a range of media.

Artist, Grant Finalist, Interview

Stacey Beach

Stacey Beach discusses art at an early age, encouraging teachers, cataloging a visual vocabulary, & finding inspiration outside of the main stream

Artist, Grant Finalist, Interview

Vanessa da Silva

Grant winner Vanessa da Silva discusses how art can provide a sense of purpose, phases of transformation, sculpture as a tool to improve psychological wellbeing, & collaborations with local choreographers and dancers.

Artist, Grant Winner, Interview

Ghost of a Dream

The collaborative duo on energy & honesty, managing multiple large scale projects, inspiration derived from cultural detritus & utilizing the refuse generated by various aspirational attainment attempts.

Artist, Grant Finalist, Interview

Mary Raap

Raap on a lifetime of making art, travel as an early creative catalyst, the intersection of gender, labor, painting and weaving & working with materials that evoke the body and life processes.

Artist, Grant Finalist, Interview

Sarah Tortora

The artist on the physicality of making sculpture, negotiating balance, creative catharsis & personal truth.

Artist, Grant Finalist, Interview

Alexis Granwell

Granwell discusses a process based practice, utilizing color and texture to activate memory, connecting the inward and outward experience & materiality as a means to explore the corporeal.

Artist, Grant Finalist, Interview

Alvin Ong

Alvin Ong on drawing as an anchor through which to navigate other worlds, working at varying scales & locating the local within the global.

Artist, Grant Finalist, Interview

Su A Chae, 2020

Su A Chae

The artist discusses the power of self-reflection, paradoxical spatial statements & multiple layered realities, and a lifelong interest in painting

Artist, Grant Finalist

Senem Oezdogan

Oezdogan on using art as a place for focus, working around challenges, utilizing content and emotion & a process that incorporates a high level of previsualization.

Artist, Grant Finalist, Interview

Journal

Rebecca Kaufman

Kaufman on new projects in textiles, ceramic handbuilding, and tactile bookmaking, using painting to reflect on addictive & invasive visual technologies & exploring the notion of consent across a range of media.

Stacey Beach

Stacey Beach discusses art at an early age, encouraging teachers, cataloging a visual vocabulary, & finding inspiration outside of the main stream

Vanessa da Silva

Grant winner Vanessa da Silva discusses how art can provide a sense of purpose, phases of transformation, sculpture as a tool to improve psychological wellbeing, & collaborations with local choreographers and dancers.

Ghost of a Dream

The collaborative duo on energy & honesty, managing multiple large scale projects, inspiration derived from cultural detritus & utilizing the refuse generated by various aspirational attainment attempts.

Mary Raap

Raap on a lifetime of making art, travel as an early creative catalyst, the intersection of gender, labor, painting and weaving & working with materials that evoke the body and life processes.

Sarah Tortora

The artist on the physicality of making sculpture, negotiating balance, creative catharsis & personal truth.

Alexis Granwell

Granwell discusses a process based practice, utilizing color and texture to activate memory, connecting the inward and outward experience & materiality as a means to explore the corporeal.

Alvin Ong

Alvin Ong on drawing as an anchor through which to navigate other worlds, working at varying scales & locating the local within the global.

Su A Chae

The artist discusses the power of self-reflection, paradoxical spatial statements & multiple layered realities, and a lifelong interest in painting

Senem Oezdogan

Oezdogan on using art as a place for focus, working around challenges, utilizing content and emotion & a process that incorporates a high level of previsualization.

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Journal

Kaufman on new projects in textiles, ceramic handbuilding, and tactile bookmaking, using painting to reflect on addictive & invasive visual technologies & exploring the notion of consent across a range of media.

Stacey Beach discusses art at an early age, encouraging teachers, cataloging a visual vocabulary, & finding inspiration outside of the main stream

Grant winner Vanessa da Silva discusses how art can provide a sense of purpose, phases of transformation, sculpture as a tool to improve psychological wellbeing, & collaborations with local choreographers and dancers.

The collaborative duo on energy & honesty, managing multiple large scale projects, inspiration derived from cultural detritus & utilizing the refuse generated by various aspirational attainment attempts.

Raap on a lifetime of making art, travel as an early creative catalyst, the intersection of gender, labor, painting and weaving & working with materials that evoke the body and life processes.

The artist on the physicality of making sculpture, negotiating balance, creative catharsis & personal truth.

Granwell discusses a process based practice, utilizing color and texture to activate memory, connecting the inward and outward experience & materiality as a means to explore the corporeal.

Alvin Ong on drawing as an anchor through which to navigate other worlds, working at varying scales & locating the local within the global.

The artist discusses the power of self-reflection, paradoxical spatial statements & multiple layered realities, and a lifelong interest in painting

Oezdogan on using art as a place for focus, working around challenges, utilizing content and emotion & a process that incorporates a high level of previsualization.

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