Is Artist Hopie Hill Reinventing the Dutch Still Life for Our Times?

Los Angeles in the 21st century and French Neoclassicism of the 19th century unexpectedly converge in artist Hopie Hill’s painting of a bag of citrus casually placed on top of a hardcover volume about Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. In this painting, titled Ingres with Oranges, Hill’s treatment of a plastic bag holding fruit she bought at a local farmer’s market, is luminous with translucent folds. Her touch is no less precise or reverent here than how she recreates the sitter’s elaborate jewels and silk and lace garments printed on the book’s cover. L.A. has always had its ways of subverting traditional hierarchies, after all.

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