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Erik Koeppel (Born 1980) Florida Sunset Oil on panel 10 x 21 inches Signed | 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 |
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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
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
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