Zoë Hopkins
Zoë Hopkins is a junior at Harvard College studying Art History and African American studies. She has published work in Artforum International Magazine, Hyperallergic, and Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
David Hammons: Body Prints, 1968–1979
By Zoë HopkinsDavid Hammons: Body Prints, 1968–1979 at The Drawing Center is the first show to focus exclusively on Hammons’s body prints.
Otis Houston Jr.
By Zoë HopkinsIn a new exhibition at Gordon Robichaux, the textures of sociality that charge Otis Houston Jr.’s street performances take up new dwelling in a gallery space.
You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: The Sapphire Show
By Zoë HopkinsYou’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: The Sapphire Show is an intimate gathering among old friends. Old and new works by each of the artists represented in the original exhibition flock together in a gorgeous reunion of living and passed on spirits.
This Longing Vessel
By Zoë HopkinsThe Studio Museum in Harlem’s 2019–2020 Artists in Residence exhibition, This Longing Vessel, was conceived with an uncanny prescience. Decided upon well before the pandemic threw us into a time that has throbbed with longing, the title summons images of empty objects waiting to be filled.
Beauford Delaney: Be Your Wonderful Self
By Zoë HopkinsBeauford Delaney’s imagination was ablaze with portraits. Often painting his subjects from the shimmering flight of memory, Delaney’s approach to portraiture was an exercise in deep connection between his own interiority and that of the people he painted.
Frank Bowling: London/New York
By Zoë HopkinsBowling's paintings seem to maintain a sort of liquidness themselves: abstract forms float with weightlessness on the canvases and soft color washes swarm together, mingling in the folds where they overlap and give birth to new tones.
