Carl hopgood

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Hopgoods work constructs a series of paradoxes that attempt to subvert our ideas of the ‘normal' John Tozer Art Monthly

Biography

From Cardiff, Hopgood emerged out of Goldsmiths College in London just after the Young British Artists movement of Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas had burst out from its art program. It was six years after the Freeze show in a Docklands warehouse put that gaggle of bawdy Brits on the global map that he earned his BFA. He was never far behind, though, showing solo at two Mayfair galleries, just after graduating in 1994. His recent exhibition at the UTA Artist Space Los Angeles called Fragile World brought together new and existing sculptural works combining neon, found objects, and video. His arresting film sculptures exist in a blur, like his plaster cast of a sleeping man that seems to breathe via a 16mm projection. Hopgood has shown from New York to Australia and all over London and Europe.

Amid his ongoing group and solo exhibitions, one of his works, Digital Taxidermy, was featured on Project Runway All-Stars, in 2016. He’d moved to the Hollywood Hills by then, where he started finding inspiration in the everyday objects of our city.

His work is featured in several public and private collections including those of Beth De Woody, The Vinik Family Foundation, Eugenio López Alonso (The Jumex Museum), Morgan Freeman, The Groucho Club / Artfarm and Pino Cassagrande.

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Carl Hopgood at his Los Angeles Studio with his two Art Works 'Twelve Steps' and 'Just Say Gay'

Studio Portrait Carl Hopgood photo credit Magnus Hastings. 'Twelve Steps' Blue Neon, Wooden Ladder 2021 and 'Just Say Gay' White Neon painted Chairs

Sleeping Figure installation shot from 'False Impressions' exhibition at The British School In Rome

Sleeping Figure 16mm film / video map projection, plaster marble sculpture, single bed and mattress , video projector.

Chair Therapy : Your Soul Is Beautiful , 4 chairs, white neon

Freedom To Choose 2022

Chair Therapy Group Installation shot at UTA Artist Space

Water Works Video Projection and Marble plaster Urinal at Platfrom 6 Exhibition, OXO Tower, London

Installation image of Chasing Waterfalls Video Projection and Marble plaster Urinal 8ft x 5ft x 2ft

Carl hopgood art

Twelve Steps, Just Say Gay , Carl Hopgood at his studio

My Background

Born in Wales, of Greek / Welsh heritage. Educated at Goldsmith College in London and Central Saint Martins College. Studio shot LHS 'The Twelve Steps' 2021 and 'Just Say Gay' 2022

My Inspiration

I am inspired by immortality and making the impossible seem possible. Taking one moment in time and making it last forever. The Grit and Glitz of life is what interests me. My work can be contraversial and sometimes uncomfortable but always magical

FRAGILE WORLD Exhibition UTA Artist Space

FRAGILE WORLD Exhibition at the UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills opens 19th August until September 10th 2022

Carl Hopgood, Samyar Maleki, Ryan Winnen, Jack Winthrop, Greg Yagolnitzer

http://utaartistspace.com/exhibitions/fragile-world/

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Carl Hopgood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hopgood

Born Cardiff Wales 1972

British Artist famous for Sculpture, Film / Video Installation and Neon. Throughout Hopgoods Career he has appropriated and re-imagined pop and underground culture in a variety of different ways. Attended Goldsmiths College https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldsmiths,_University_of_London graduating in 1994 with a BA in Fine Art. The same year he had two solo shows Arrivals Departures at Karsten Schubert Gallery and Waddington Gallery (now Waddington Custodial) in Cork Street, London. He went on to exhibit in a famous group exhibition called False Impressions in Rome alongside Cerith Wyn Evans, Lucy Gunning Richard Patterson and Alessandro Raho. Featured by Marina Wallace in her Art Monthly review https://www.dropbox.com/s/phq87bwxdrfg6ib/Art%20Monthly%20Carl%20Hopgood%20.pdf?dl=0

Hopgoods' Work is collected by Eugenio Lopez Alonso https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenio_L%C3%B3pez_Alonso

Several of Hopgood's art works feature in The Groucho Club's permanent Art Collection. His work has been shown at Galleries in New York, Sydney , Berlin, Italy, London and Los Angeles. The illusionary nature of Hopgood’s Work, which literally plays with the idea of existence, appearance and reality through the practical use of projection. He creates a liminal space for the viewer, one that exists in a state of transference from reality to dream and back again. The projection on solid plaster forms. which in itself is n index of another figure, only becomes ‘alive’ when the projector is present. His Neon Work has been exhibited at The Museum Of Modern Art / Kenny Goss Foundation in Dallas for the MTV Staying Alive Foundation.

Exhibiting in a group show in 2012 at The South Bank, London called Platform Six which offers a snapshot of London-based LGBTQ+ artists.

Now based in LosAngeles, Hopgood's work is in several international collections including The Jumex Museum Mexico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colección_Jumex The Groucho Club https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Club and The Vinik Foundation. Exhibited at The Maddox Gallery https://maddoxgallery.com/artists/257-carl-hopgood/overview/

Installation View Videos and Interviews

Carl Hopgood Documentary

Trailer for Carl Hopgood Documentary Fragile World Directed by Kate Rees Davis

Fragile World Exhibition featuring my Neon Sculptures and Film installations at UTA Artist Space filmed by Eric Mnh Swenson

Documentation of Fragile World Exhibition at UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. 08.19.22 - 09.10.22

TV Interview from The Oxo Tower Wharf Group Show P6

Hopgood discusses some of his works including Neon, Sculpture and Digital Taxidermy

Documented Works From Solo Exhibition London Waddington Galleries / Karsten Schubert

Hopgood Debut Solo Show Arrivals Departures

Interview for Platfrom 6 Exhibition

interview about the work featured in the exhibition at The OXO Tower London

Interview for Platfrom 6 Exhibition

interview about the work featured in the exhibition at The OXO Tower London

Project runway Allstars

Featuring 'Digital Taxidermy Owl'

Installing Sleeping Stag

Life Size Resin, Bone and Gold Leaf

Going Forwards Seeing Backwards w6mm film

Hopgood’s Wing Mirror Piece, a celluloid caprice involving what should be a simple film of moving traffic shot forwards through the side window of a moving car but that is in fact complicated not only by being projected onto both a side and an end wall, distorting the depicted space, but by being projected over an actual wing mirror that corresponds to the same mirroring the film, reversing the image and reflecting it onto the side wall to create a series of inversions and perspectives that shouldn’t be there. Common sense and empirical wisdom are played off against contradiction and incongruity to construct a series of paradoxes that attempt to subvert our ideas of the ‘normal'

John Tozer Art Monthly review of Life Is Elsewhere curated by Alex Farquharson

Digital Taxidermy: Golden Bat

Digital Taxidermy : Golden Bat Glass Cloche 20'' x 10'' Mini Video Projector

Tiny Dancers

Bottle Service and Can Can Dancers. Four dancers are projected onto bottles and beer cans. This work has been exhibited at UTA Artist Space LA, Minnie Weisz Studio and The Groucho Club, London.

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FRAGILE WORLD Exhibition UTA Artist Space

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Installation View Videos and Interviews

Carl Hopgood Documentary

Fragile World Exhibition featuring my Neon Sculptures and Film installations at UTA Artist Space filmed by Eric Mnh Swenson

TV Interview from The Oxo Tower Wharf Group Show P6

Documented Works From Solo Exhibition London Waddington Galleries / Karsten Schubert

Interview for Platfrom 6 Exhibition

Interview for Platfrom 6 Exhibition

Project runway Allstars

Installing Sleeping Stag

Going Forwards Seeing Backwards w6mm film

Digital Taxidermy: Golden Bat

Tiny Dancers

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