Ann Marie Hopkins
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A Vibrant Stillness features the acrylics and mixed media works of Ann Marie Hopkins, an adjunct art faculty member at Lone Star College-North Harris. Hopkins draws inspiration from the world around her, often struck by the beauty and harmonious compositions spontaneously formed in everyday life. The artist strives to capture these fleeting moments, the play of light through a bedroom window, the mirror-like surface of a pond, the both reflective and transparent nature of water. Hopkins' work has an abstract and sometimes disorienting, quality because of the acute angles and shapes created by light and shadow. Objects that should be instantly recognizable are disguised and given new life as other worldly forms. Positive space becomes negative space in what the artist calls, "romantic surrealism".
Ann Marie Hopkins, a Conroe native, taught at Conroe, McCullough, and the Woodlands High Schools for three decades before becoming department head and retiring in 2002. She is the first faculty member to be featured in the Lone Star College System Faculty Exhibition Series at the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts. |
