All in Contemporary Art
The Hopper Prize has a strong history of supporting contemporary visual artists through their biannual artist grant program. This is a great program that provides unrestricted financial support to working artists of all backgrounds and disciplines. In the Spring and Fall, 5 artists each receive awards, for a total of 10 grants per year. On top of this, support is extended to an additional 30 artists per cycle who are selected for a shortlist.
Alfaro Carozzi is originally from Lima, Peru / New York. She has worked in New York City most of her adult life. During an interview with Design & Fashion, she told us ” I am very interested in psychology. To create a painting I look at the scene from an analytical and psychological point of view. I see many stories within a story and I invite the viewer to engage and create his own story.
The starting point of Howard Harris’ creative experience is the observation of the world, of what lives and what surrounds him: every image is the mirror of a story, the memory of a state of mind, the result of a visual and experiential association; it is the trace of an experience which retrieves as well a private dimension.
For over 20 years I have been developing my own painterly language through portraiture and atmospheric scapes. I don't seek realism, but rather a catalyst that will begin a dialogue between viewer, painting and artist. My artworks are a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, nationality and a journey with my own physicality and spirituality. I am obsessed with the painting process, but also enjoy running workshops, sharing my knowledge and passion.
Cubism was created when Picasso and Braque introduced a third dimension in their impressionist paintings. Inspired by African sculptures, cubist artists represented all dimensions of reality by showing the various angles of an object.
Attila Mata, currently residing in Hungary, was born in Hungary in 1953.He always wanted to be an artist, maybe because he has been surrounded by artworks since his early childhood. He chose sculpture over painting as he was better at it and most of the time his teachers praised him for his sculptures.
As an artist, I create images that speak about the fragility of life, of us. I truly believe our children can make a difference. They might be young and seem fragile, but they have the power and will to change things.
Simon Darling is a Danish artist who grew up being exposed to the creative nature of his mother, who were an emerging abstract artist. In a young age he quickly engaged himself in drawing and painting.
“Through my paintings, I unite and express the unexplainable, indefinite and confusing emotions, from the obscure realm of imagination”
For the Italian painter David Pallua, to become an artist was to courageously refute the expectations of others in order to fulfill a personal dream. Not surprisingly, Pallua values integrity and authenticity as the most important aspect of his artwork.
Merging academic and contemporary painting into one, Christo Anto Francis, an illustrative painter hailing from Canada captures people at various moments of their lives. The artist carefully crafts paintings which have arresting emotions and shows beauty, simplicity, elegance, eccentricity and naughtiness in them.
The latest works by Hyeja Moon can be considered as the landmark that shows her long thoughts in her mind have reached to the starting point of her painting career all the way again. That is “Matisse’s colors and Mondrian’s abstracts geometric.” She titled the works <Compositions of Two Light Sources>. And the two light sources are, of course, Matisse and Mondrian who have long occupied her heart ever. What influences on Hyeja Moon’s work did those two great artists have? Matisse and Mondrian respectively.
Robert van de Graaf (1983, The Netherlands) is a Dutch visual artist living and working in The Hague, The Netherlands. He received a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Architecture (Technical University Delft) in 2009. Since 2011 he dedicated his life on the visual arts.
Miguel Balbás’s artwork is solid and would stoically withstand any criticism from those who can’t bear for a piece of art to be beautiful, and nothing more. In contrast to proposals of questionable taste and poor content, both aesthetically and intellectually, the work of this artist is a tribute to the perfection of form, from someone whose objective, in his personal as well as professional life, is to make existence more tolerable for the rest of us.
Ming Ying (b.1995) is from Beijing and currently lives and works in London. Now she is having MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art (2018-2020). Her works are almost exclusively in oil paint.
Alexandre Egorov was born and brought up in St. Petersburg in an atmosphere of the cultural movement of what is known as Russian cosmism This philosophical movement combined ethics and philosophy of the origin, evolution and future existence of the cosmos and humankind, both from Western and Eastern traditions.
A painter, born in Paris, residence in France & Cambodia. I have always been interested in arts from my early childhood, doing some paintings and drawings as a hobby. I really started painting on the daily basis from 2011. Under the great Influences by artists such as: Picasso, Klimt, Egon Schiele, Basquiat, Richter, Rothko, Modigliani; I’ve learnt much from their styles.
Tolmie MacRae explores the multiplicity of existence predominantly through the medium of video. His works have explored themes of meditation, transcendence and immanence by investigating the flow of light and time on people and landscapes generating visual and temporal abstractions. He plays with opposing ideas and then fuse them together.
BiHop parodies the paintings of renowned artists such as Caravaggio, Bacon, Gogh, Lautrec and Cezanne, for escaping from this dichotomous ideology of the subject-object. It shows the intention of de-subjection and de-objection by removing the Sunflowers from the Gogh’s painting and taking away the Apples from Cezanne’s.
Bogdan's artwork has a deep understanding of biomorphic forms and organic movement. He attempts to use colors and nuances that 'love each other' in such a way that the painting would echo beautifully. His use of multiple media and acrylics, as well as sculpture and bronze, is a testament to his adventurous and intuitive approach to his work.
Sal Ponce Enrile embraces the use of mixed media, acrylics, and textures that add character and depth to the uncensored expression of her work. She was once a legislator and it was her political background that gave her the opportunity to witness the real challenges people in extreme poverty are facing daily. It’s these genuinely kind and generous people she has met that’s given her a unique way to see the world. Today, reflecting on those moments remains her inspiration.
