Episode 53 - Grace Hopkins

The minute I met Grace Hopkins at the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown, MA, I knew I wanted to interview her for Art Lovers Forum. She is deeply involved in the art world, and I felt she could teach me so much. I was so right.

For most of the year, Grace is the director of the Berta Walker Gallery, one of the most respected in PTown. She loves working for Berta who has a strong understanding of art, and the business of art, after working for the Whitney Museum, Marisa del Re, and Graham Modern Galleries.

Grace is an artist who creates very unique art by using photography to create square abstract images. Grace details how she manages to produce work that focuses on objects that often go unnoticed. She really has an amazing story.

Grace is the daughter of noted artist Budd Hopkins, who was also an author and ufologist.  He was a prominent figure in alien abduction phenomena and related UFO research. Her mother, April Kingsley, was a respected art historian. Grace’s parents were friends with art world luminaries like Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning, et al.  

Grace lived most of her life in the art communities of Manhattan and Outer Cape Cod (Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet).