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Janette Hopper
Janette K. Hopper
Janette K. Hopper taught in Washington state for 15 years and served on the board of the Northwest Prints Council before pursuing her career and artistic interests where beckoned. Growing up in Idaho and receiving her MFA at University of Oregon, Janette Hopper currently is Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Solo museum exhibits in the U.S. include the Bellamy House Mansion, Wilmington, North Carolina, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, the Maryhill Museum of Art, Maryhill, Washington and the Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, WA. Gonzaga University, the Washington and Oregon State Arts Commission, the City of Mannheim in Germany and the Marselisborg Gymnaseum in Denmark are among those who have purchased works for collections. During her Fulbright in Denmark in 1991-92, she began to have European one-person exhibits starting in Copenhagen with a grant from Danish Fulbright. She exhibited in art centers and galleries in Denmark as a member of Paleur International, and later independently in Germany, and France. Her Pyrenees series of landscapes and linocuts were shown in Bordeaux, France funded by an Artist Trust Grant. In 2004, she presented her work at Monash University in Prato, Tuscany, Italy. In 2005, she had a one person exhibit in Ludwigsburg, Germany. During 2007 one of her linoleum prints was accepted into the International German Linoleum cut Exhibit, Linolschnitt Heute VII, Stadtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen and another print has toured in “Paper Politics” which has been in many venues throughout the US as well as at the Exposition D’Art, Montreal, Canada.
Her work reflects her love of nature and humankind and has been included in many juried exhibits. Her linoleum prints, which show integrity, social conscience and humor in their imagery, are in permanent collections including the Gilkey Collection in the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, the House of Humor and Satire in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, and in the Center for the Studies of Political Graphics in Los Angeles, California.
Artist Statement:
I study the works of International and American printers. You will see the appropriation of some of these art images in my "Freedom of Expression” prints. I appropriate images from other artists from the tenth century through the present whose work speaks more powerfully than I could to current world problems. One example is the print "Face War" (2005) which alludes to Durer images. I have also executed a series of monoprints related to my “Dancing on the Last Stump” performance and paintings.
I continue to make linocuts to print as individual stand-alone prints or as parts of more complex works. Currently I am layering print methods, textures and imagery. I have made series of monoprints where I explore the potential creativity of the media and push it experimentally. I often print in Ralph L. Steeds’ print shop in Red Springs, North Carolina where I have the benefit of his technical expertise to realize my artistic ideas. My latest works combining wood grain prints with my sumi ink drawings using chincole and over printing pushes boundaries and gives me a chance to develop layers of beauty while wrestling to solve difficult visual problems. Meditative is the word that comes to mind to describe this process and the resulting works.
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