Sculpture Alumna Charlie-Anne Hopkins Featured in Unbridled at PUNCH Gallery
Exhibition view, “Unbridled,” at PUNCH Gallery
Charlie-Anne Hopkin’s (MFA Sculpture 2011) work is featured in Unbridled, a two-artist exhibition with Montana-based artist Daphne Sweet, on view through August 2026 at PUNCH gallery in Thorp, Washington. The exhibition was recently covered by the Ellsworth Daily Record.
Unbridled takes its inspiration from the mythologies, landscapes, and cultural inheritance of the American West, guiding viewers through Western and classical narratives that meld ideas of gender, labor, power, and belonging — reworked through embodiment, care, and material practice. Hopkins’ reimagines Western iconography, challenging narratives of conquest while examining the relationships between bodies, land, and inheritance. Sweet’s paintings draw on classical art history and personal allegory, marked by bold color and layered symbolism.
Hopkins directly engages with the land as the foundation of their multidisciplinary art. They forage natural materials to create inks, sculptures, and works on paper. This practice forges a tangible connection to the landscape, reflecting personal experience and ecological narratives. It captures the urgent, often unsettling reality of witnessing climate change in real time. Living in the Western United States, Hopkins notes rapid regional changes affecting belonging. Additionally, their practice upends patriarchal myths of the American West, replacing rugged conquest with adaptation and care for the land.
Hopkins earned an MFA in Sculpture at Cranbrook and a BFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from the Kansas City Art Institute. They have collaborated with artist Mark Dion and the collective Spurse, and have held residencies at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, the Vermont Studio Center, Caldera Arts, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Mildred’s Lane, Leland Ironworks, Sou’wester Arts, and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, among others. In addition to their studio practice, Hopkins played a key role in founding Carnation Contemporary, a cooperative gallery in Portland, Oregon dedicated to supporting emerging and underrepresented artists.
They live and work in Lyle, Washington, splitting their time between the studio and the saddle.
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