Hopgoods work constructs a series of paradoxes that attempt to subvert our ideas of the ‘normal' John Tozer Art Monthly
Hopgoods work constructs a series of paradoxes that attempt to subvert our ideas of the ‘normal' John Tozer Art Monthly
Photo Gallery
Twelve Steps 2022 currently on show at the Bombay Biennale, Palm Springs California until April 2nd 2023
Controil 2023 (They Ban Books, They Ban Drag But Kids Leave School in Body Bags )
'Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places' 2018 Neon Chandelier
Red, White and Blue Neon, Box Spring Mattress
Chair Therapy : Far From Fear 2022 Wood Chairs, White Neon
Chair Therapy My Pain Today Is My Strength tomorrow 2022, 9 wooden chairs, white neon.
Golden Sleeping Stag 2013 Gold Leaf, Marble plaster sculpture, Full Size bed and mattress.
Photo Gallery
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 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
Installation image of Chasing Waterfalls Video Projection and Marble plaster Urinal 8ft x 5ft x 2ft
Carl hopgood art
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
Press
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
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.