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Article: Hopkins' X-ray images emerge from the mist.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- April 14, 2006
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Byline: Alan G. Artner
Apr. 14--Not long ago, Michael Hopkins' paintings on slate were among the most personal and refined entries in the inaugural group show of the Navta Schulz Gallery, and now they are again at the exhibition of four Chicago artists at the same venue.
The works are personal insofar as more recent ones combine images inspired by X-rays with hard-edged geometric abstraction and the unlikely but effective slate. They are refined because the extreme precision and delicacy of the work is shown to have grown out of his abstract drawings, also in an unlikely medium, eyeliner on paper.
Part of the success of the pieces, it seems to ...