Vibrant mixed-media painting featuring a large pink cartoon character with an expressive face in the center, surrounded by surreal aquatic and humanoid figures rendered in bold greens, oranges, and browns against a sandy beach landscape and blue sky. The composition includes a man in an orange shirt with green hands on the left, a small green insect-like creature on the right, and various sculptural forms, creating a dreamlike underwater scene rendered with gestural brushwork and layered paint applications.
Vibrant mixed-media painting featuring a large pink cartoon character with an expressive face in the center, surrounded by surreal aquatic and humanoid figures rendered in bold greens, oranges, and browns against a sandy beach landscape and blue sky. The composition includes a man in an orange shirt with green hands on the left, a small green insect-like creature on the right, and various sculptural forms, creating a dreamlike underwater scene rendered with gestural brushwork and layered paint applications.

Kevin Hopkins Bio

Kevin Hopkins [b. 2000, Beaufort, South Carolina] is a painter based in Kansas City, Missouri. Hopkins’ work explores the celebration of life and the awareness of his mortality following the passing of an elder. Currently, he has focused his work on highlighting familial relationships through self-portraiture--or personas extracted from self-portraiture. Kevin now attends the Kansas City Art Institute majoring in Painting and Art History. He was recognized internationally as a… Read more

Kevin Hopkins [b. 2000, Beaufort, South Carolina] is a painter based in Kansas City, Missouri.

Hopkins’ work explores the celebration of life and the awareness of his mortality following the

passing of an elder. Currently, he has focused his work on highlighting familial relationships

through self-portraiture--or personas extracted from self-portraiture. Kevin now attends the

Kansas City Art Institute majoring in Painting and Art History. He was recognized

internationally as a 2021 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grantee and nationally as a 2021

AXA Art Prize finalist.

 

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