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Artist Carolyn DiFiori Hopkins Launches New Series: EntangleGraph™
A layered, reflective art practice that merges original paintings, photographs, and digital methods
(Albany, NY — Summer 2025) — Artist and educator Carolyn DiFiori Hopkins announces the release of a new body of work: EntangleGraph™ — a series of layered, reflective compositions that draw from her personal archive of paintings, drawings, photographs, and collected objects. The first limited edition print collection will launch before the end of summer 2025 via her online shop and website: www.carolyndfiorihopkins.com.
“The EntangleGraph™ series is the most reflective and imaginative work I’ve created in decades,” says Hopkins. “It is a way of layering memory, landscape, and personal symbolism through new tools, while staying grounded in my own history as an artist.”
The series emerges from the artist’s archive of thousands of images — preserved over a lifetime of studio practice — combined with objects and still life elements found in her home and studio. Hopkins notes:
“If you visit my home and studio, you will see many of these same objects — birds’ nests, feathers, bowls, figures, botanicals — displayed on tabletops, windowsills, and walls in curated vignettes. These are not random elements, but part of an ongoing visual conversation — now finding new expression within the EntangleGraph™ series.”
Hopkins coined the term EntangleGraph™ to distinguish her work from broad or misleading categories like “AI art” or “digital collage.” These pieces are not prompt-generated images, but original compositions authored by the artist — combining traditional media with selected digital tools, which Hopkins has developed and directed to serve her own visual language.
“For me, this is not about AI generating images — it is about using digital tools to reflect upon, reinterpret, and extend my life’s work as a painter. These are not mechanical outputs — they are authored, intentional works shaped by years of looking, learning, and making.”
The resulting works are rich with atmosphere, narrative, and dreamlike qualities — layered with personal symbolism and the artist’s own archive. They reflect a process of reflective art — working back and forth across time, imagery, and memory — bringing forward new works that feel at once contemporary and timeless.
Hopkins will release the first selection of prints — including options on Hahnemühle paper, canvas, embellished canvas, and metal — as curated limited editions (typically 50 per image) with additional open editions to follow. All prints will be available through her Shopify store and website.
“This process has opened one of the most creative and enjoyable periods of my life,” says Hopkins. “It has allowed me to bring forward the depth of my own archive in ways that feel newly alive, layered, and resonant.”
For press inquiries, collector interest, or to view the series:
Instagram: @carolyndfiorihopkins
About the Artist:
Carolyn DiFiori Hopkins is a multidisciplinary artist based in Albany, New York. Her practice spans painting, drawing, mixed media, and reflective digital art. With nearly fifty years of experience as a professional artist and educator, her work is grounded in a deep reverence for natural forms, atmosphere, and the expressive language of visual art.
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EntangleGraph™ is a trademark of Carolyn DiFiori Hopkins.
All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted in any form or by any means — including for educational purposes — without the express written permission of the artist.
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“A Gesture Toward the Earth”
New Works in Painting and Drawing
Albany, NY – Summer 2025
In her newest body of work, multidisciplinary artist Carolyn DiFiori Hopkins presents a series of paintings and drawings that blur the boundaries between landscape and abstraction, figuration and atmosphere. A Gesture Toward the Earth reflects a lifelong dialogue with place, memory, and the expressive potential of mark and material.
These works are not traditional landscapes. They are responses—intimate, gestural, and layered with time. Hopkins builds each surface with visible tension: pigment, graphite, and ink intertwine in veiled strata, while vertical lines, sweeping contours, and eroded forms suggest both natural structures and human presence.
Drawing and painting are treated as equal forces—sometimes separate, sometimes fused—evoking both the immediacy of sketchbook observation and the weight of the studio process.
The work offers a meditation on impermanence and resilience. Color becomes temperature. Line becomes gesture. Space becomes memory. Whether echoing scorched fields, distant weather, or internal states, Hopkins’ compositions dwell in a place between clarity and dissolution.
“I’m not painting a scene,” Hopkins notes. “I’m painting what remains in the body after the scene is gone.”
This series invites viewers into a visual terrain that is felt as much as seen—where the land, and the act of drawing it forth, become a language of their own.
Contact:
Carolyn DiFiori Hopkins
www.carolyndifiorihopkins.com
gray1carolyn@gmail.com
Carolyn DiFiori Hopkins is a multidisciplinary artist based in Albany, NY. She works in painting, drawing, and mixed media to explore themes of landscape, memory, and resilience.
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A Gesture Toward the Earth # I
Mixed Media on Paper
24 inches x 34 inches
2025
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Carolyn DiFiori Hopkins: A Gesture Toward the Earth
In her latest body of work, Carolyn DiFiori Hopkins reaches deeper into the marrow of the land—not to illustrate it, but to inhabit its gestures, to chart its vulnerability, and to draw out the spectral presence of time itself. These paintings—both restrained and ruptured—resist easy categorization. They are not quite landscapes. They are not wholly abstract. They are psychic maps, where natural forms become memory, and color is deployed not as decoration but as temperature, pulse, erosion.
Hopkins, long admired for her rigorous drawing practice and poetic intimacy with nature, here edges closer to the threshold of dissolution. Her vertical strokes—sometimes whisper-thin, sometimes smoldering—function as human stand-ins, or perhaps as the skeletal remains of what once stood. There’s a consistent tension in these compositions: between fragility and strength, emergence and disappearance, surface and depth. One thinks of the aftermath of fire, of standing in a field just after something has ended.
Technically, the work is unapologetically raw. You see the artist’s hand in every swipe, every graphite scratch, every veiled wash. She allows the surface to breathe—resisting the trap of polish. The materials speak. The white space is not absence; it’s a chamber for pause.
At times, the work veers toward the didactic—not in message, but in its formal insistence on pattern, symmetry, or gesture. One might wish for a moment of silence or restraint to interrupt the visual rhythm, to allow a single form or figure to hold the gaze longer. And yet, this slight over-articulation may also be the point: the landscape is not quiet, it is cluttered with memory, resistance, growth, loss.
This is work that demands a slower looking. Hopkins has no interest in spectacle. She builds atmosphere, lets pigment do its wandering, and allows viewers to find themselves in the fog of it.
In an era oversaturated with digital sheen and high-concept detachment, Hopkins reminds us that the hand still matters, that the earth is still worth mourning, and that a tree—rendered with intention—can carry the same weight as a figure.
Entanglegraph: A New Vision in Contemporary Mixed Media
A Press Release from Carolyn DiFiori Hopkins
Albany, NY — June 13, 2025
Multidisciplinary artist and educator Carolyn DiFiori Hopkins introduces a bold new direction in contemporary visual language with the debut of her coined term and body of work: Entanglegraph.
This innovative series of mixed media compositions redefines boundaries between drawing, painting, collage, and digital reflection—offering an intricate visual vocabulary for the Anthropocene.
Over a career spanning four decades, Hopkins has developed a practice rooted in poetic mark-making, intimate materials, and conceptual depth. The Entanglegraph emerged as a formal and emotional response to a fractured world in flux. Each piece—numbered sequentially like field notes—merges graphite, ink, pigment, and digital layering into a surface of tension and tenderness. Natural forms, symbolic gestures, and visual memory converge in these layered works.
“In an Entanglegraph, the act of mark-making becomes an act of stitching time,” says Hopkins.
“These works arise from the ground up—sometimes literally—collecting remnants, textures, and traces that have been rubbed, worn, or buried. They are not collages in the usual sense, but vessels of convergence.”
The Series: Crossing into the Nesting
The first body of work under the Entanglegraph umbrella is titled Crossing into the Nesting. These images explore ground-dwelling forms, bird nests, botanical remnants, and obscured figures. They speak to the fragility and resilience of life in a world of upheaval.
Created in Hopkins’ upstate New York studio, the works are available as limited edition archival prints (24 x 32 inches) on museum-quality Hahnemühle paper. Each is digitally signed and accompanied by poetic field notes.
About the Artist
Carolyn DiFiori Hopkins is a lifelong artist and respected elder voice in the arts community. Her work and teaching span painting, drawing, and mixed media practices. She maintains a strong online presence and continues to challenge cultural assumptions about aging, visibility, and innovation in art.
The Entanglegraph is not just a new term—it’s a call to recognize complexity as a form of beauty, and to find coherence within the tangle.
Media & Exhibition Inquiries:
📧 gray1carolyn@gmail.com
Title: Entanglegraph No. 04 (Crossing into the Nesting)
Mixed media and digital construct on paper
24 x 32 inches — Limited Edition Print
Available
A monarch floats in stillness, flanked by branches and the curved form of a bird. Shadow descends like roots. An intimate, forested encounter between forms.
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June 2025
Carolyn DiFiori Hopkins Coins the Term
Entanglegraph
A New Conceptual Form in Contemporary Mixed Media
ALBANY, NY — Visual artist and educator Carolyn DiFiori Hopkins announces the official coinage of the term Entanglegraph, a word and practice she originated to define a new form of hybrid visual work that merges drawing, painting, digital compositing, and poetic symbolism.
Unlike conventional mixed media or collage, an Entanglegraph is a layered visual field constructed through a deliberate process of entanglement—with the natural world, the symbolic imagination, and the act of mark-making itself. These works often include botanical remnants, figures, handwritten elements, and gestural lines embedded in atmospheric textures. They function as reliquaries of time, memory, and ecological witnessing.
“Entanglegraph is my term for a visual document that doesn’t resolve or flatten—it reverberates,” says Hopkins. “These pieces are not ‘digital paintings’ or collages, but woven maps of attention, experience, and layered perception.”
The artist coined Entanglegraph in 2025 to name a form that she has been developing over several years, culminating in a growing body of work that blurs material boundaries while remaining grounded in painterly tradition. Each Entanglegraph is composed with an awareness of both fragility and resilience—reflecting the pressures of the Anthropocene, the intimacy of human gesture, and the endurance of natural forms.
Hopkins has asserted authorship of the term, and requests that fellow artists, curators, and publications cite the word accordingly.
The first Entanglegraphs will be available in limited edition prints through WhiteWall, as well as original mixed media works in exhibitions and online viewing rooms.
About the Artist
Carolyn DiFiori Hopkins is a multidisciplinary artist with over four decades of experience in painting, teaching, and visual storytelling. Her current practice draws on themes of natural resilience, symbolic presence, and layered perception. She holds a B.A. from Rutgers University and an MFA from SUNY Albany, and is widely known for her commitment to mentorship, experimental process, and visual poetics.
Contact
Website: www.carolyndifiorihopkins.com
Email: gray1carolyn@gmail.com
Instagram: @carolyndifiorihopkins
Prints and originals available upon request.
Title: Nest of Memory and Flame, Entanglegraph |2025
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