An Inch of Color, A World of Light: Grace Hopkins’ Abstract Expressionist Photographs at the Berta Walker Gallery
Provincetown Magazine August 26, 2022
by Steve Desroches
The sounds of August fill the air outside artist Grace Hopkins’ Wellfleet home. And to be clear, the sounds in this part of the Outer Cape are the buzz of bugs and the occasional rustle of tree leaves as a summer breeze glides through, quite a different soundtrack than up Route 6 in Provincetown with the cacophony of Carnival Week. Walking into her home, a very large painting by her father, the late artist Budd Hopkins hangs on the wall next to a smaller piece, but only in comparison to its wall mate, as for her, it’s one of the largest photographs she’s printed. She laughs remembering an old story about artist Franz Kline, who, with her father, moved to Provincetown in the 1950s to study art. A fellow artist asked him what he thought of a small painting he’d done and Kline responded, “Make it bigger.” The artist did and when he showed the larger version to Kline he replied, “Good. Now I can see it.”
Cartagena 12, 2021 (color photograph on canvas, mounted, 12 x 12”)
