HOPPER RE-IMAGINED Exhibition Opens at Edward Hopper House Arts Center in Nyack NY, 4/3

The Edward Hopper House Art Center, 82 N. Broadway in downtown Nyack, continues The Year of Edward Hopper celebrations with the opening of the exhibition, Hopper Re-Imagined on Sunday, April 3 from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. This exhibition, which runs through May 8th, showcases Edward Hopper ‘s work uniquely interpreted or "re-imagined" in this multi-media group show, which includes works by artists Teresa Berasi, Brian Brooks, Lizzy Denning, Karen Finley, Randy Ford, James Fuhrman, Wally Glick, Shalom Gorewitz, Holly Harrison, Jim Holland, Andrea Kantrowitz, Lovid, Vik Muniz, Mica Pillemer, Andrea Placer, Natasha Rabin, Katherine Ramos, David Wells Roth, Paul Schulenburg, Barbara Scullin, Glynis Sweeny, Richard Tu and Eric Thompson.

The Edward Hopper House Art Center is the birthplace and childhood home of renowned artist Edward Hopper (1882- 1967) and is celebrating its 40th anniversary as a non-profit art center in 2011. To commemorate the anniversary they are presenting "The Year of Edward Hopper," a series of exhibitions and events honoring Edward Hopper and his legacy. The highlight of this year-long celebration will be an exhibition of Hopper's early work entitled Edward Hopper, Prelude: The Nyack Years, scheduled for May 21-July 17, 2011. This is the first exhibition to concentrate on the works Hopper created during his years in Nyack. Supported by loans from the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Arthayer R. Sanborn Hopper Collection Trust, the show will include paintings, drawings, watercolors and memorabilia, some of which have never before been published or exhibited. ElizaBeth Thompson Colleary, Curatorial Consultant and Hopper scholar, selected the works in the exhibition. An illustrated catalogue with text by art historian Avis Berman will be available. With the additional participation of an esteemed Board of Advisors that includes Jane Alexander, actress and former Chair of the National Endowment of the Arts, artist Eric Fischl, and Adam Weinberg, the Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the show will garner much attention. Hopper scholar Carol Troyen states, ""How exciting-and appropriate-to see these early works in the place where Hopper began! These are the spaces that fired his imagination at the beginning of his career, and that he kept returning to throughout his life." This exhibition is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Images are available for publication.

Tickets are required in advance for Edward Hopper, Prelude: The Nyack Years. For information and to purchase tickets visit edwardhopperhouse.org.