Janette K. Hopper
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Janette K. Hopper - janette.hopper@uncp.edu – www.janettekhopper.com Southeastern artist, Janette K. Hopper is a Professor at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Since receiving her MFA from the University of Oregon, her work has been shown extensively in major museums, colleges, universities and private galleries. Solo exhibits include Perimeter College, Atlanta, UNCW, Wilmington, NC, Wesleyan University, Rocky Mount, NC, Bellamy House Mansion, Wilmington, NC, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, the Maryhill Museum of Art, Maryhill WA and the Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, WA as well as many international venues (Denmark, Germany and France). She has works in the following permanent collections: Bald Head Limited, NC, UNCP Livermore Library, NC, many in the Washington and Oregon State Arts Commission public venues, the City of Mannheim in Germany, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA, The National Park Service, Ludwigsburg Education University, Ludwigsburg, Germany and the Marselisborg Gymnaseum in Denmark. During her Fulbright in Denmark, she had European one-person exhibits starting in Copenhagen with a grant from Danish Fulbright. She has continued through the present, exhibiting in art centers and galleries in Denmark as a member of Paleur International, and independently in Germany, France and Italy. Her Pyrenees series of landscapes were shown in Bordeaux, France. Her landscape paintings were included in a Fulbright juried retrospective in Washington, DC and with New York artists in the Lincoln Center and in many other juried exhibitions. On Sabbatical Leave, she painted and exhibited the Neckar River Series in Germany. She has also presented her work at Monash University in Prato, Tuscany, Italy, at the Ludwigsburg Education University, Ludwigsburg, Germany, the Chapel Hill, NC Town Hall, the Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC and The Kress Gallery, Spokane, Wa. 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 one in “Paper Politics.” Exposition D’Art, Montreal, Canada. During an Art Residency in Stehekin, WA, she produced a body of work for the National Park Service and also participated in the No Boundaries International Art Colony in NC. Artist Statement My creative impulses center on the environment and primal memories of the land. The landscapes and images inspired by nature are universal and global as are my concerns for our relationships with each other and with our universe. I feel a heartfelt affinity with the sky, water, and luxuriant growth of the landscape, which transfers through me into a meditative art. When I paint, draw and print, the space, light, rhythm and color involve me. Questions are asked in the images, which arouse anger, joy, peace and passion as experienced by the viewer. On location painting and sketching rapidly, I find changes happen so quickly that I must paint from my memory of the relationships that already don’t exist and try not to be too distracted by the new developing possibilities. I work in my studio using my imagination and memory to create an expressive personal view. Gesture, movement and mark-making contribute to my work in a variety of media. Please check out the websites listed
below for more images of my art.
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