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HAZEL JOPLING
P.O. BOX 234
TILGHMAN, MD 21671
Phone: 410-708-2079
hji58@juno.com
Born: 1943 (New York City)
Lived/Active: New York/Maryland
Profession(s): Painter
Known for: Abstract, Styrofoam Assemblage and Collage
Style(s): Abstract, Naive/Folk
Medium(s): Acrylic
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Artist Biography:
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION for Hazel Jopling
Hazel Jopling was born in New York City in 1943. She lived as a child
on the border of Little Italy in the area that later became known as Soho,
at 436 West Broadway, and started drawing at three years old. When she
was 8 yrs.old, her family moved to the Upper West Side where her father,
Paul Insetta, could be closer to Broadway and pursue his songwriting
career.
Coincidentally, she had her first New York City exhibit across the street
from where she used to live, by that time known as Soho, at The West
Broadway Gallery in 1983.
Hazel attended Rhodes Preparatory School in New York City and then New York University, majoring in Biology. She also attended classes at The Art Students League.
She married in 1966, and when her three children were older, she began devoting full time to painting. She has exhibited in galleries in New York, Connecticut, and Texas.
She recently moved to Maryland and has exhibited in various galleries
on the Eastern Shore.
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Artist Statement:
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Following the lead of Duchamp, Picasso, and Louise Nevelson, Hazel
Jopling first started using found and discarded materials from the
environment to make art, in the late 1970’s.
The tradition of Modern Art as an affirmation and reflection of
contemporary culture and technology was established with the first
assemblages that incorporated man-made and machine-made materials
more than seventy-five years ago: “Still Life With Chair Caning” and
“Guitar” by Pablo Picasso, 1911-12.
Also, Robert Rauschenberg, and Joseph Beuys have innovated the use of
‘cultural signifiers” in their work. It is in this tradition, and with the added
consciousness of the impact of Styrofoam packaging material on our
environment that I have chosen to work in this medium.
Her unique style began in the 1970’s, when she found the ‘ready made’
Styrofoam packaging material, ready to be discarded from her recent
purchases, intriguing. Firstly, because of its inherent sculptural beauty and
secondly because of the threat that it and other non-biodegradable
substances posed to our environment.
She is the first artist to use and incorporate discarded Styrofoam
packaging material, which is used primarily to protect electronic
components during shipment, in her assemblages and free standing
sculptures. Unlike other artist who have used Styrofoam, she does
not cut the Styrofoam to fit a pre-conceived idea or use.
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MUSEUM and GALLERY responses to my work:
Charlotta Kotik, Curator of Contemporary Art, The Brooklyn Museum
“Indeed you have turned Styrofoam, an otherwise wasteful and potentially harmful material, into beautiful objects. I too share your concern with the environment and admire your ability to speak of it in such an innovative way.”
Diane Waldman, Curator: Guggenheim Museum and Author
“We are pleased to have become acquainted with your work and encourage you to continue to send us slides from time to time as your work develops.”
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York City
“You manage to give the Styrofoam an aesthetic quality which raises it to a new level beyond its everyday common usage. Ms. Hoffman viewed your work (unique sculptures) with a great deal of interest”.
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