"After Hopper" Opening Reception August 1 on Cape Cod

2015/07/21

« The Oil House » watercolor David Burns 13 x 21
This house was featured in the Hopper painting titled « The Capron House »

After Hopper Opening Reception

Saturday, August 1 from 5:00 to 7:00

Addison Art Gallery

43 South Orleans Road (Route 28)

Orleans, MA 02653

508.255.6200 addisonart.com

Celebrating Edward Hopper’s Legacy on Cape Cod

In 1930, Edward Hopper and his wife Jo spent their first summer in South Truro on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Having traveled through the United States and France, they built their home here on a bluff overlooking Cape Cod Bay. Artists from across the country are joining with the Addison Art Gallery and other regional organizations and businesses for « After Hopper, » a celebration of work by contemporary artists inspired by Edward Hopper and Cape Cod – the area that inspired Hopper for decades. Plans for this celebration include exhibitions of new plein air and studio works, receptions, demonstrations, artist panels, and talks by Hopper experts.

Helen Addison of the Addison Art Gallery said, « The impact Hopper’s work has on contemporary artists and the market is rising with international coverage and soaring auction prices. Our region’s high regard for historic architecture combined with our natural environment (protected by the expansive Cape Cod National Seashore) makes this the ideal place for artists and art lovers to get a deeper understanding of Hopper’s work and influences. ‘After Hopper’ celebrates the integral part he has played in our country’s artistic heritage and the effects his work has on today’s painters. »

Addison, who lives in Truro, created and is implementing « After Hopper » (copyright Addison Art, Inc. 2015). The Addison Art Gallery is the most active in the region and celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.

« After Hopper » is supported by the Edward Hopper House Art Center (Nyack, New York), Fine Art Connoisseur, American Art Collector and Plein Air Magazine as well as Pamet Harbor Yacht and Tennis Club, Truro Public Library and Truro Vineyards.

Quotes from Artists and the Cape Cod Museum of Art

According to Edith A. Tonelli, Ph.D., Director, Cape Cod Museum of Art, « It is exciting for us to partner with Helen Addison and the Addison Art Gallery. This project, which involves asking artists from all over the country to create new works of art inspired by Edward Hopper and the places he painted, is exactly in line with our mission to inspire artists and exhibit art that is connected to our region. These exhibitions and events are also intended to spark a dialogue about contemporary painting and its ties to historic and global artistic traditions. »

« With ‘After Hopper’, I am embracing Hopper’s influence. Without trying to recreate the same scenes, I am conscious of celebrating some of the subject matter, the look and pensive, mysterious, contemplative emotions of his work. » – Paul Schulenburg

« I admire the way Hopper took a scene and stripped it down to its essentials. The compositions are constructed with thoughtful precision. The color is used expressively. I’m especially enthralled with his work that includes figures. They fill the painting not with their scale, but their simple, perfectly placed presence. » – Marc Kundmann

« I have always admired Hopper’s ability to maintain a feeling of loneliness even though his work is flooded with beautiful light. » – Maryalice Eizenberg

« When I first started painting in the 1960s I thought to be a serious painter on had to paint simple geometric shapes like the artist Frank Stella, so I did too. But from Edward Hopper’s example I learned that one could be aware of avant-garde art but still choose subtlety nuanced realism as one’s way to express oneself. » – Philip Koch

« Bathed in the light of the outer Cape painting plein air it is impossible for me not to be inspired by Edward Hopper. My only hope is that I filter what he has so masterfully done and paint with my own voice » – Robert Abele

For more information, please contact Helen Addison. helen@addisonart.com, 508.255.6200.

Artists wishing to participate are invited to email edward@addisonart.com for submission guidelines. Prizes include the Plein Air Magazine Award of Excellence, American Art Collector Award of Excellence, and Edward Hopper House Art Center artist memberships.

Schedule of Events

2015

Saturday, August 1 from 5:00 to 7:00

After Hopper: Plein Air Artists’ Gallery Reception

Addison Art Gallery 43 South Orleans Road (Route 28), Orleans

Opening reception for the first « After Hopper » exhibition featuring work created by award-winning artists and inspired by Edward Hopper and/or the places that inspired him.

Saturday, August 29 through Sunday, November 15

After Hopper: Plein Air Museum Exhibition

Cape Cod Museum of Art 60 Hope Lane (off 6A), Dennis

Thursday, September 3 at 3:00

After Hopper: Philip Koch Slide Talk

Cape Cod Museum of Art 60 Hope Lane (off 6A), Dennis

Thursday, September 3 from 5:30 to 7:00

After Hopper: Plein Air Museum Exhibition Opening Reception

Cape Cod Museum of Art 60 Hope Lane (off 6A), Dennis

Saturday, September 19 at 1:00

After Hopper: Plein Air Painting Demonstrations

Cape Cod Museum of Art 60 Hope Lane (off 6A), Dennis