Exhibitions
2006 Year of the Dog2006 Year Of The Dog ~ Carnegie Center, 251 W. 2nd St., Lexington, KY 40507
2007 Shaped By Water ~ Gallery on Main, 128 W. Main, Richmond, KY 40475
2007 The Infinite Fineness of The Feminine ~ About Art Gallery, 128 Shelbyville Rd., Louisville, KY
2007 Point of View ~ Singletary Center ForThe Arts, President's Room Gallery, University of Kentucky
2008 What Women See ~ Berea Arts Council Gallery, Berea, KY
2008 Points Of View ~ Carnegie Center, 251 W. 2nd, St., Lexington, KY 40507
2009 Louisville Photo Biennial ~ Mellwood Arts Center
2009 The Nude Show ~ Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
2009 Memento Mori: Contemporary Manifestations~ Claypool-Young Art Gallery, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY
2011 Gummed-Up~ M.S. Rezney Studio/Gallery, Lexington, KY
2015 New Alchemy, Lexington Camera Club ~ Anne Wright Wilson Gallery, Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY
2015 Maps of The Imagination, Kentucky Women Photographers Network ~ Actors Theatre Gallery, Louisville, KY
2016 Gathering~ A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
2017 Gateway Regional Arts Centre, Mt Sterling, KY
2017 Lexington Camera Club: New Work, Lyric Theater Gallery, Lexington, KY
2017 Gratz Park Inn, solo show, Lexington, KY
2019 Reality And Dreams: Shared Loves, Craft Gallery and Mercantile, Louisville, KY
Reviews
We like to control animals and nature, but when they get beyond our understanding things tend to get interesting. This is true of Marcia Lamont Hopkins’s photographs, too. Hopkins envisions overgrown forests, historic graveyards, farm animals, and occasionally people, often in combination, in impeccable digital prints that blend multiple shots into believable wholes. The weirder and more convincing, the better: a sheep enmeshed in a dense forest seems as if it and the trees are made of the same stuff, a lama in a rolling meadow becomes one with the horizon and the clouds. Because Hopkins prints these images to look like vintage pictures, from an era before digital manipulation was common, they emanate a sense of eternity. Indeed: once upon a time animals were as sentient as they look here, and the forests as impenetrable.
BURNAWAY, MARCH 27, 2017, LORI WAXMAN, Art historian and Chicago Tribune art critic.
Vignette: Marcia Lamont Hopkins
Photographer, Marcia Hopkins
By applying a poetic and often metaphorical language to her photographic images, Marcia Lamont Hopkins opens the door to the unknown, to multiple realities, both real and artificial, so that one questions what is really happening.
Her images establish a link between the landscape’s reality and the artist’s imagination. While this could, to some extent, be said to be true of any artist using landscapes, Hopkins pushes the limits of our perception of what is real. Each object or environment seems entirely natural and plausible, yet the juxtaposition within the artist’s gauzy, dreamlike atmosphere creates an uneasy sense of mystery. Is our understanding shifting in relationship to time, memory, or some other reality that we can’t quite define?
In her artist’s statement, Hopkins explains it this way: “The series, Causabon’s Illusion, crafts a series of metaphorical vignettes rooted in elements of magical realism and the mind’s tendency to search for all-inclusive answers. In George Elliot’s Middlemarch, Edward Causabon spends his life in a futile and absurd attempt to find a comprehensive explanation for the whole of civilization’s knowledge and mythologies. Deluded, he believes that he alone has the key to humanity’s searching, an illusion which may be reflected in our culture today.”