Bukowski at Hopkins

Bukowski paintings will be at the Hopkins Center for the Arts until February 21.

The space is pretty dramatic with the glass walls and plenty of natural light. If one just drives through the city of Hopkins, you can't help but to see the exhibition right from your car. The best part is to walk along the wall on the inside and see a large part of the Sibley Park series. One reward of doing a show like this, is to see random people walking along very slowly looking at every painting.

They are actually looking......

Hopkins Center Exhibition Opening

Garden Paintings by William Bukowski

Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, Minnesota.

Last night was the opening of this show in Hopkins. There were 3 other artists showing new work and a play going on in the theater, so there were a lot of interested viewers.

I called the show, "The Search for Paradise" because of the show in Waseca. The paradise metaphor works for these painting because it is a garden that is not easily identifiable with a specific place and there are no people in it to define fashion or time period. I like how the show is visible from the street and during the day has some beautiful natural light. If you are in the area, check it out. The show runs until February 21, 2010.

Show coming up at Hopkins Center for the Arts.

Hopkins Center for the Arts will be showing my garden paintings coming up next week in Hopkins, Minnesota. I am getting everything ready.

It is always interesting to see a the paintings together. I decided to call the show" the Search for Paradise". I think it gives it kind of a Romantic notion like the European desire to fine an earthly paradise. The Sibley series has evolved to more of a metaphor for the desire for heaven. Heaven probably isn't Sibley Park in Mankato for most people, but it is art after all, and an interpretation.