BIOGRAPHY - Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Erik Koeppel was born in Oregon, and spent his childhood moving with his family through many of the most beautiful landscapes of North America from the Rocky Mountains, to Southern California, to the Appalachian Range. At the age of ten, he settled in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, where he drew obsessively from nature, and began to develop a love for the expressive potentials of traditional representation. Erik received his formal training from the Rhode Island School of Design followed by the New York Academy of Art, and an annual apprenticeship in Wiscasset, Maine with his professor and friend, Seaver Leslie. After copying extensively from the Italian Masters, he developed a body of work that has been exhibited and collected internationally, and represented across the United States. Koeppel’s mastery of traditional techniques has led him to become one of very few young contemporary artists whose work is regularly exhibited with historic masters of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. He has hung beside Thomas Cole, Winslow Homer, Edgar Degas, John Frederick Kensett, and George Inness, and has had the distinguished honor of entering collections including artists of this caliber. American Artist, PleinAir Magazine, and other respected publications have covered his progress. Artist Statement:
In the act of painting, I have sought to discover that highest knowledge of Beauty, poetic and philosophical, that has been the common thread between all of the Great Masters of Art. I have spent hours staring at the finest masterpieces in museums worldwide in an effort to decipher that meditative effect that distinguishes greatness from proficiency, and have made the creation of that sentiment my central goal as an artist. Following this path has led me to study deeply the sciences of philosophy, design, linear perspective, anatomy, color, optics, architecture, botany, light and atmosphere with respect to their purposes in art, and I have built a foundation of consistent formal principles that work in harmony to illuminate meaning in painting. As my subject, I have chosen the universal human condition in this world, and have sought wherever possible to discard the sociopolitical fashions of contemporary culture in favor of those enduring sentiments that we all encounter in life. It is my belief that to experience the Beauty of our existence here in this magnificent landscape is the only way to happiness. My intention as an artist is to share that Beauty.
2004 New York Academy of Art. Master of Fine Arts in Painting 2002 Rhode Island School of Design. Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration 1999-2004 Painter/Professor Seaver Leslie of RISD, Apprenticeship at his studio
2012 Art Renewal Center Living Master, Port Reading, NJ 2012 Judge Teaching Studio of Art 2nd Annual Plein Art Comp., Sagamore Hill, NY 2011 Hudson River Fellowship, Senior Fellow, Hunter, NY 2010-12 2011 Art Renewal Center Salon Landscape finalist 2009, 2010, and 2011 2009 Hudson River Fellowship: one month residency in Hunter, NY 2009
2012 "Techniques of the Hudson River School Masters with Erik Koeppel", DVD, Streamline Publishing 2012 "Erik Koeppel: Informed and inspired by the Hudson River School" by Steven Doherty in PleinAir Magazine August 2012 2012 "On the Road to Jackson" Essay by Charlie Vogel Exhibition Catalog 2012 My Long Island TV Coverage of the 2nd Annual Plein Air Competition at Sagamore Hill, NY 2012 "Nature's Palette" Cover, and Saturday Feature by Tom Eastman, The Conway Daily Sun. July 2012 "Old Time Relationship" Cover of The Telegraph Magazine by Jake Berry, Sunday June 17 2012 "(Upfront) The Old is New Again" by Barbara Coles, New Hampshire Magazine 2012 "On the Road to Jackson..." by Cynthia Melendy, Ph.D., The MountainEar, June 14 2012 "What Better Place to Paint?" by Kristi Garofalo, Union Leader, April 10 2011 "The Malzahn Collection" by Mathias Anderson, Fine Art Connoisseur, December issue 2011 "Revisiting the Hudson River School" by John A. Parks, American Artist: Plein Air Painting, Fall Issue 2011 "Landscape Painting in the 19th-Century Tradition" by Stephen Doherty, PleinAir Magazine, Fall Issue 2011 "PleinAirMagazine's Publisher's Invitational" PleinAir Magazine, Fall Issue 2011 “Hudson Valley Contemporary: Works on Paper” catalogue 2011 Art Renewal Center International Salon Catalogue 2010 American Painting Video Magazine, Fall issue, “The Hudson River Fellowship” 2010 Art Renewal Center International Salon Catalogue 2010 “Erik Koeppel, The American Landscape” catalogue, Wally Findlay Gallery 2009 “Erik Koeppel, Kickin’ it Old School” Manhattan Magazine, November Issue 2009 Art Renewal Center International Salon Catalogue
AVAILABLE WORKS | |
 Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Conversation by the Pond Oil on panel 30 x 24 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Bathers on the Saco Oil on panel 12 x 19 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Morning Fire, Thorn Mountain Oil on panel 14 x 24 inches Signed | Sold Works |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Mount Washington Valley Oil on canvas 44 x 72 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) The Wood Splitter Oil on panel 18 x 14 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Clouds Breaking Oil on panel 14 x 24 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Pastoral Sunset Oil on panel 15 x 24 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Morning, Red Bird Slough, Sarasota, FL Oil on panel 9 x 14 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Sunset at Olana, Hudson Valley, NY Oil on canvas 30 x 48 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Sunset from Little Roundtop, Gettysburg Oil on canvas 12 x 22 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Chocorua Oil on canvas 16 x 26 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Sunset at the Davis Farm, Jackson, N.H. Oil on canvas 21 x 36 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Evening Light, Siesta Key Beach, FL Oil on panel 8 x 12 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) The Yosemite Valley Oil on canvas 16 x 24 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Summer Rain Oil on canvas 14 x 24 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Sunset over the Laguna Oil on board 5 7/8 x 11 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Florida Sun Oil on panel 6.625 x 14 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Afterglow in the Tropics Oil on panel 14 x 18 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Florida Afterglow Oil on panel 12 x 24 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Sunrise in the Tropics Oil on panel 11 x 18 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Coconut Palms Oil on board 8 x 11 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Palm in Evening Light Oil on board 7 x 5 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) A Farm in the Tarn Valley Oil on panel 8 x 12 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Dream Lake, Storm in the Rockies Oil on canvas 25 x 30 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Clouds in the Presidential Range Oil on panel 9 x 14 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Coconut Palms Oil on board 11 x 7 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Last Rays, Florida Oil on canvas 14 x 24 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Morning Light in the Tarn Valley, France Oil on panel 7 x 12 inches Signed, also signed and titled on the reverse |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) A Spring Morning in Jackson Oil on board 11 x 9 inches Signed, also signed and titled on the reverse |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Florida Afterglow Oil on panel 10 x 16 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Florida Sunset Oil on canvas 10 x 16 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Florida Twilight Oil on panel 10 x 18 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Tropical Beach Study Oil on panel 8 x 12 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Jungle Path Oil on panel 12 x 9 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Caribbean Shore Oil on panel 8 x 12 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Indian River County, Florida Oil on canvas 14 x 24 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Lone Palm, Ft. Pierce, FL. Oil on panel 6 x 4 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) A Farm in the Hudson Valley Oil on panel 12 x 10 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Long Island Beach Oil on panel 5 x 12 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Woodland Path Oil on panel 11 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) The Yosemite Valley (El Capitain and Bridalveil Fall) Oil on panel 10 x 16 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) The Big Sur Coast Oil on panel 8 x 14 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Florida Palm at Sunset Oil on panel 7 x 11 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Three Palms at the Ft. Pierce Inlet Oil on panel 4 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Inland Florida, Indian River County Oil on board 7 x 11 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Winter in Jackson Oil on canvas 14 x 24 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Pastoral Morning Oil on canvas 16 x 24 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Along the Hudson Oil on canvas 14 x 22 inches Signed |  Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Glen Ellis Falls Oil on masonite 16 x 12 inches Signed; also signed and titled on the reverse |
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