To Live and Die in LA is part love letter to Los Angeles, my home of 26 years, and part anxiety fever dream to metabolize its ongoing horrors. The compositions pull from my own compulsive photographic practice-documenting thousands of images of uniquely Angeleno characters, architecture, landscapes and of course sunsets and palm trees.

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Violet Hopkins lives and works in Los Angeles where she received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia. Often inspired by found images of the natural world, her work references layers of her own photography combined an expressive sense of fantasy. Hopkins exhibitions include BaliceHertling, Paris; Rubell Family Museum, Miami; David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles; Stuart Shave/Modern Art,
London; Peres Projects, Berlin; Deitch Projects, New York; David Zwirner Gallery, New York; Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo. Her work is included in the collections of MoMA and the Hammer Museum.