Open Case Presentation

Sunday, September, 23 2:00 - 4:00pm

Collins Library, the University of Puget Sound

Exhibition Dates: August 9 - October 14

Join Mark Hoppmann at Collins Library for an afternoon in A Garden of Earthly Delights as we journey in an up close and personal tour of the exhibition. As we open each display case, gather around as we turn the pages and retrace the journey taken to create each new, unique artists’ book. Afterwards, feel free to take out one or more of the twenty sketchbooks in the exhibition and peruse or study the many sketches of Tacoma and the Pacific Northwest which show we truly do live in a garden of earthly delights.

Partially funded by a Tacoma Artist Initiative Project (TAIP) grant from the Tacoma Arts Commission,The Garden of Earthly Delights, celebrates the Pacific Northwest in an exhibition of nine new works and nearly 20 sketchbooks by Tacoma book artist and illustrator, Mark Hoppmann. The exhibition challenges our perceptions of Puget Sound and the Pacific Northwest; from an alphabet created from the decaying wharves of Tacoma's seafaring past, to the menagerie of gargoyles found on the Washington coast, to typewriter art celebrating Puget Sound and beyond in alliterative haiku, and more.

Mark Hoppmann graduated from Drake University with a BFA in graphic Design and Commercial Art in addition to studying art for one year in Florence Italy. After working for twenty years in the graphic arts industry as an offset pressman, pre-press and bindery operator, he resumed his art career and has been an artist in Tacoma Washington, working primarily as a book artist, illustrator, and watercolor painter for the last twenty years. He says, I have always been curious. That curiosity has resulted in an eclectic accumulation of treasures, memories, experiences, and books, all which in turn, inspire my art. With apologies to Rudyard Kipling, my intent is to design illustrated books for those, “with ‘satiable curtiosity.” Simple and sometimes unadorned, but thoughtfully creative book designs hide a treasury of illustrations within.

For more information about the work in the exhibition, please visit my website,www.markhoppmannart.com

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