MarkHoppmann
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MarkHoppmann
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ark Hoppmann
Working from his studio in Tacoma Washington, Mark Hoppmann Is a multi-media artist working primarily in watercolor, India ink, and graphite. He studied art for one year in Florence, Italy, before graduating from Drake University in 1978 with a BFA in graphic design and commercial art. An offset press operator in the graphic arts industry for twenty years, Mark returned to art full time in 1999. Mark has exhibited his watercolor paintings and drawings in multiple galleries across the Pacific Northwest. He has self-published two illustrated handmade books; “Thirteen Ways”, celebrating the poetry of Wallace Steven’s, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, and “Twelve Days”, based on The Twelve Days of Christmas. His current project, “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crows”, is funded partially through a Tacoma Artist Initiative Project grant from the Tacoma Arts Commission.
“All art originates from a simple idea”
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Artist's Statement "All art begins as a single idea. The more complicated the idea becomes, the more art begins to unravel. My art should be nothing more than a simple statement; a detail unnoticed by most, a moment, captured by my camera or the blink of my eye, or perhaps nothing more than a mood held together by the balance of color, shape, and line. From this, no one should assume my art is simple. The simplicity of the initial idea belies the complexity of composition and design. And therein lies the beauty of my work." Mark Hoppmann
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2000 Solo exhibition, Tacoma Audubon Society 52 annual Pacific Gallery Artists Open Show Commencement Bay Maritime Fest Open Show 2001 53rd Annual Pacific Gallery Artists Open Show Honorable Mention Commencement Bay Maritime Fest Open Show 2002 House Artist at Freighthouse Art Gallery 2003 54th Annual Pacific Gallery Artists Open Show 2004 Published in Artists of the Northwest coffee table book 2005 Silverdale Art Walk, Silverdale, WA Best of Show 2006 Group Exhibition, the Columbia Tower, Seattle, WA Featured Artist Capitol City Visual Arts Exhibit Helen Norris Open Art Show 2007 Co-founder of art gallery, Gallery96 Capitol City Visual Arts Exhibit Westport Art Festival Featured Artist 2008 Valley Arts United Group Exhibition Western Washington State Fair Juror 2009 Co-founded www.gallery96tacoma 2010 Collaborated with www.simplemeasures.org, illustrating and publishing Thirteen Ways, a celebration of the poems of Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Illustrated & published Twelve Days, a revision of The Twelve Days of Christmas 2011 Tacoma Arts Commission TAIP Grant Recipient Puget Sound Book Artists First Annual Exhibition 2012 Solo Exhibiiton February "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crows" Puget Sound Book Artists Second Annual Exhibition Collins Memorial Library, The University of Puget Sound October 23, Tacoma Studio Tours, group discussion on Cityline, Tacoma Cable Network 2013 Puget Sound Book Artists Board Member 2014 President: Puget Sound Book Artists
Bibliography May, 2000 The Towhee, Tacoma Audubon Society: “New Art Gallery” May 2005 Artists of the Northwest , coffee table book May 3, 2007 The Tacoma Weekly, “Gallery 96: small on space, large on art” Nov 30, 2007 The Mast, Pacific Lutheran University, “Recreating Beauty” February 24, 2012 The Tacoma News Tribune, "UPS Art Exhibits Features Dual Sides of the Creative Coin" Rosemary Ponnekanti UPS art exhibits feature dual sides of creative coin
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