Greg Rook
Clyde Hopkins, Paintings 2000 - 2017

CLYDE HOPKINS - Paintings 2000 - 2017, 15th November - 12th December, Private View 14th November, 6 - 8pm, BLOND CONTEMPORARY, 7 Piccadilly Arcade, SW1Y 6NH.

Clyde Hopkins, Paintings 2000 - 2017
Greg Rook
Domus Meus

“… (the paintings are) tough and put together with a cool lightness of hand which conceals the lucid pictorial intelligence which has gone into their making.”

Domus Meus
Greg Rook
Superama, GEORGE YOUNG

This new body of paintings combines aerial landscapes and floating shapes - figuration, colour-fields, texture and abstraction. ‘Kites' are seen from above - painted with brush, roller and airbrush. They are textured and evidence process and changes in direction through overlapping layers. They show clean, machine-like fades and colour blocks that overwrite thoughts, mistakes and past potential futures.

Superama, GEORGE YOUNG
Greg Rook
The 'Estate' of Stuart Cumberland

When we talked about his current position relative to his painting, his reference to a previous Stuart Cumberland as the author of the work suggested that there might be rich parallels to be drawn between working with Cumberland’s painting, working with an artist’s estate and questions of authorship around painting and post-conceptual painting in particular.

The 'Estate' of Stuart Cumberland

marilynhallam

Clyde Hopkins. The Politics of Formica at The Forum, Barrow

Clyde Hopkins. The Politics of Formica at The Forum, Barrow

As a painter and an educator Clyde Hopkins had a profound and lasting influence on all those around him - an influence which continues to be assessed today with his posthumous inclusion in the Tate Collection, and solo shows this year in the UK and New York. As the weight and significance of his work is brought to light through exhibition and publication, it becomes increasingly clear that his contribution to contemporary painting, and abstraction in particular, was extraordinary.

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Marilyn, Clyde, Mali and Turps

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Marilyn, Clyde, Mali and Turps

I would always recommend Turps Painting Magazine, but issue 24, just published, is of particular significance. Within, Mali Morris interviews Marilyn Hallam about her life with Clyde Hopkins. This atmospheric piece is both redolent of the recent past and yet also offers an insight into a world which is superbly contemporary - reminding us of painterly concerns that are continuously relevant. It is wonderful to see their work recognised and discussed.