Curt Hoppe “Flirting With Nudes”
P339 Gallery
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Curt Hoppe is a New York-based artist whose photographs and realist paintings chronicle his life and interests over the past 40 years. Curt moved From Minnesota to his current home at 98 Bowery in 1976. There, his neighbors Marc H. Miller and Bettie Ringma employed his Realist style to illustrate their “Paparazzi Self-Portraits,” including “Bettie and the Ramones and one of Al Goldstein, who subsequently hired Hoppe for Screw magazine where he was a contributing artist from 1977-1883. He exhibited in the first “PUNK ART” exhibit in 1979 at the Washington Project for the Arts, with his painting “Bettie and the Ramones” In 1981 his work appeared in P.S. 1’s “New York/New Wave” exhibition.
His diverse work ranges from caricatures for sex tabloid Screw to meticulously rendered photo-realist cityscapes of the ethnic neighborhoods of Lower Manhattan or Long Islands glitzy” Hamptons”. His “Girls of Action” series featured Roller Derby Queens and lower east side Burlesque entertainers. He is currently working on a series of photographs and larger-than-life black-and-white portrait paintings of the artist friends, a tribute to those, that were a part of the bohemian milieu of his youth. These portraits are scheduled in 2 larger exhibits in April 2019.
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from April 06, 2018 to April 29, 2018
Opening Reception on 2018-04-06 from 18:00 to 21:00