A. J. Hopkins works as a private dealer, art consultant, independent curator, and appraiser, appearing regularly on PBS’s Antiques Roadshow. He is also the author of a catalogue raisonnée on the British artist Magdalene Odundo and a past president of the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum. He now lives and works in the Hudson Valley, where he occasionally—one might say almost surreptitiously—produces the rare art piece under the pseudonym A.J. Hopkins.