hadley hooper

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For Winter, A Robust Wine That’s Full of Summer.  Popping a bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape on a cold night offers a fragrant blast of Provençal heat. _ Wall Street Journal

For Winter, A Robust Wine That’s Full of Summer. 

Popping a bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape on a cold night offers a fragrant blast of Provençal heat. _ Wall Street Journal

Pinotage for the Wall St Journal, Drue Wagner Art Director

Pinotage for the Wall St Journal, Drue Wagner Art Director

“Here Come the Girl Scouts” wins a Nerdy! 

“Here Come the Girl Scouts” wins a Nerdy! 

Final cover for Westword 

Final cover for Westword 

A little movie milagro for a friend and her new knee

The Justice Center was a huge project and because Denver has a 1% tax for public art, that translates into a great and visible collection for the city. A couple of the keystone projects included the piece outside by Dennis Oppenheim  and the foyer sculpture by Ralph Helmick. The latter work was fabricated by my partner in Ironton Mike Mancarella and Junoworks. 

This painting was commissioned by the City of Denver for the new Justice Center. It’s waiting to be installed sometime in the next couple of weeks. The working title is ‘floating/falling’. I wanted the image to be ambiguous; somedays you might encounter the work and see the animal as struggling, other times it might simply be swimming. Ultimately I hope it’s a calming painting- for the folks that work there and those participating in the trials held on this floor.

This painting is part of a new series reinterpreting book covers from an inherited western history book collection.  Oil on panel 36” x 48” x 2” 2012

This painting is part of a new series reinterpreting book covers from an inherited western history book collection. 

Oil on panel

36” x 48” x 2”

2012

To add pause between the booze posts. 

To add pause between the booze posts. 

Wall St. Journal “The French word négociant means a dealer or merchant of wine. A négociant typically purchases grapes, wine or must (fermented or unfermented juice) and puts his own label on the final product. Unlike with a wine made at a domaine (a winery that makes and bottles its own wines), the components and the creation of the wine can be a bit of mystery, not just to a buyer but sometimes even to the négociant himself. Of dubious quality and questionable provenance, négociant wines were often quite cheap but rarely good deals—at least until recently. Today’s top négociants—whose spiritual home may be in Burgundy but who work all over the world—are producing higher-quality wines and are often engaged with the winemaking and the viticulture.”

Wall St. Journal

“The French word négociant means a dealer or merchant of wine. A négociant typically purchases grapes, wine or must (fermented or unfermented juice) and puts his own label on the final product. Unlike with a wine made at a domaine (a winery that makes and bottles its own wines), the components and the creation of the wine can be a bit of mystery, not just to a buyer but sometimes even to the négociant himself.

Of dubious quality and questionable provenance, négociant wines were often quite cheap but rarely good deals—at least until recently. Today’s top négociants—whose spiritual home may be in Burgundy but who work all over the world—are producing higher-quality wines and are often engaged with the winemaking and the viticulture.”