Grace Hopkins’s Pristine Workspace
It complements the modernist house inherited from her father
THE PROVINCETOWN INDEPENDENT
IN THE STUDIO
BY ANDRE VAN DER WENDE JAN 5, 2022
Grace Hopkins doesn’t maintain an artist studio in the traditional sense. It is more of a processing center where she uploads digital photographs before printing them on squares of canvas mounted on aluminum or wood. Where a painter might have a palette and an easel, Hopkins has an iMac and large-format printer.
Grace Hopkins with her large format printer. (Photos by André van der Wende)
“I can’t stand drawing, or working with my hands, ever,” says Hopkins, who prefers the clean efficiency of digital media. She spent two years at Hampshire College in Amherst studying art history and women’s studies before switching to photography. Hopkins graduated from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1996.
Hopkins is the daughter of the late abstract painter Budd Hopkins, a founding member of the historic Long Point Gallery in Provincetown. In addition to making art, she teaches courses at the Open University of Wellfleet and is director of Berta Walker Gallery, where she also shows her work.
When her father died in 2011, Hopkins inherited his Wellfleet house, designed in 1977 by Charlie Zehnder.
Budd Hopkins’s old studio.
