Michael Hopkins has crafted a successful career by foregoing flaccid monumentality in service to a quiet visual poetry that affirms fundamental human-scale sensation. The works he creates are nuanced, evocative, and intimately connected to each other. He has built a vernacular of shape over more than three decades that, while small in scale, is expansive in effect. The gesture he uses in wire, pastel, or aperture is an exercise in expertise and generosity.