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Program

In Conversation: Laura Hoptman with Hamza Walker on the Subject of Pope.L's Drawings

June 26, 2026, 6:30pm – 8:00pm

Pope.L, Please, 1993. Ballpoint pen, marker, puff paint, matchbook cover, correction fluid, tape, and fork on exhibition flyer, 17 x 11 inches (43.2 x 27.9 cm). Courtesy the Estate of Pope.L and Gladstone. Photo: Daniel Terna © The Estate of Pope.L

Pope.L, Failure Drawing #780, 2.13.04, Worm Ziggurat on Napkin, 2004. Acrylic, color marker, and ink on paper towel, 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (14 x 14 cm). Courtesy the Estate of Pope.L and Gladstone. Photo: Daniel Terna © The Estate of Pope.L

Pope.L, Pink People Eat Cotton Candy I Eat Cotton, 2012. Acrylic, china marker, ink, oil stick, pencil, and water-based oil on vellum graph paper, 36 x 23 3/4 inches (91.4 x 60.3 cm). Collection of Adam Pendleton and Karsten Chi'ien. Image © The Estate of Pope.L

Pope.L, Please, 1993. Ballpoint pen, marker, puff paint, matchbook cover, correction fluid, tape, and fork on exhibition flyer, 17 x 11 inches (43.2 x 27.9 cm). Courtesy the Estate of Pope.L and Gladstone. Photo: Daniel Terna © The Estate of Pope.L

Pope.L, Failure Drawing #780, 2.13.04, Worm Ziggurat on Napkin, 2004. Acrylic, color marker, and ink on paper towel, 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (14 x 14 cm). Courtesy the Estate of Pope.L and Gladstone. Photo: Daniel Terna © The Estate of Pope.L

Pope.L, Pink People Eat Cotton Candy I Eat Cotton, 2012. Acrylic, china marker, ink, oil stick, pencil, and water-based oil on vellum graph paper, 36 x 23 3/4 inches (91.4 x 60.3 cm). Collection of Adam Pendleton and Karsten Chi'ien. Image © The Estate of Pope.L

Join Drawing Center's Executive Director Laura Hoptman and curator Hamza Walker, Director of The Brick in Los Angeles for a special conversation on drawing as the central, expansive and generative core aspect of visionary artist, teacher, and performer Pope.L's work, on occasion of the exhibition Certainly an Act: Works on Paper by Pope.L.

ASL Interpretation will be available for this public program.

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Lead support for Certainly an Act: Works on Paper by Pope.L is provided by Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis. Generous funding is provided by Jill and Peter Kraus, Sarah Arison, and Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg. Additional support is provided by Gladstone; Hilary and Peter Hatch, Bernard Lumpkin and Carmine Boccuzzi, Modern Art, London, Adam Pendleton and Karsten Ch'ien, Vielmetter, Los Angeles, Timur Galen and Linda Genereux, the Hudgins Family, and Ann and Mel Schaffer.

Special thanks to the Estate of Pope.L and Mitchell-Innes & Nash.

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