Large textile work on deep blue cotton featuring two portraits rendered in warm oranges, reds, and yellows with expressive, gestural line work. The composition includes scattered stars, flowing green botanical elements, and small photograph collage elements in the upper right, with red outlines creating dynamic movement across the surface.
Large textile work on deep blue cotton featuring two portraits rendered in warm oranges, reds, and yellows with expressive, gestural line work. The composition includes scattered stars, flowing green botanical elements, and small photograph collage elements in the upper right, with red outlines creating dynamic movement across the surface.

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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