Koeppel, Erik – PETER JUNG FINE ART

Erik Koeppel (1980-) Contemporary, American

Sunset in the Hudson Valley

Medium: Oil on board
Image Size: 8” x 10”
Frame Size: 14” x 16”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Erik Koeppel (b.1980) 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 numerous collections including artists of this caliber. American Artist, PleinAir Magazine, The American Art Review, and other respected publications have covered his progress.

EDUCATION:

2004 New York Academy of Art. Master of Fine Arts in Painting
2002 Rhode Island School of Design. Bachelor of Fine Arts
1999-2004 Painter/Professor Seaver Leslie of RISD, Apprenticeship

EXHIBITIONS:

~ “Reflecting the Real” Rehs Galleries, New York, NY
~ “Personal Favorites” Musem of White Mountain Art, Jackson, NH
~ “Erik Koeppel and Lauren Sansaricq” at The Art Place, Wolfeboro, NH
~ “Plein Air Rockies 2015” Cultural Arts Council of Estes Park, CO
~ “Secluded Glens and Noble Landscapes: Traditional White Mountain Art
~ Recaptured.” The Museums of the Bethel Historical Society, Bethel, ME
~ “History Meets the Arts” Lorde Nelson Gallery, Gettysburg, PA
~ “Treasured Places, Protected Spaces” Cheshire Historical, Keene, NH
~ “Members Exhibit” Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, MA
~ Palm Beach Jewelry, Art, and Antique Show McColl Art, Palm Beach, FL
~ Naples Art and Antiques Show with Rehs Galleries, Naples, FL
~ L.A. Art Show with Rehs Galleries and McColl Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
~ Dallas International Art and Antuques Fair” with Rehs Galleries, Dallas, TX
~12th Annual White Mountain Art Show and Sale, Jackson Museum
~ Baltimore Summer Antiques Show, with Rehs Galleries, Baltimore, MD
~ “The Glory of the White Mountains: ErikKoeppel and Lauren Sansaricq
~ Newport Antiques Show, with Rehs Galleries, Newport, RI
~ Benefit Auction, The Thomas Cole House National Historic Site, Catskill, NY
~ Armory Spring Show, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
~ Avenue Show, with Rehs Galleries, New York, NY
~ Affordable Art Fair, with Rehs Galleries, New York, NY
~ Palm Beach Art and Antique Show McColl Fine Art Palm Beach, FL
~ Naples Art and Antiques Show with Rehs Galleries, Naples, FL
~ Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair with Rehs Galleries, Chicago
~ L.A. Art Show with Rehs Galleries and McColl Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
~ Dallas International Art and Antuques Fair” with Rehs Galleries, Dallas, TX
~ “Paysages, Erik Koeppel and Lauren Sansaricq,” Liaucous, France
~ “The New Hudson River School” Mark Gruber Gallery, New Paltz, NY
~ “Across this Great Land” Balcony House Gallery, Dallas TX
~ 11th Annual White Mountain Art Show and Sale, Jackson Museum, NH
~ Affordable Art Fair, with Rehs Galleries, New York, NY
~ Aspen Fine Art Fair, with McColl Fine Art, Aspen, CO
~ Baltimore Summer Antiques Show, with Rehs Galleries, Baltimore, MD
~ Newport Antiques Show, with Rehs Galleries, Newport, RI
~ Benefit Auction, The Thomas Cole House National Historic Site, Catskill, NY
~ Armory Spring Show, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
~ “Marine Art” The New Hampshire Antiques Coop Milford, NH
~ Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair with Rehs Galleries, Chicago
~ L.A. Art Show with Rehs Galleries Los Angeles, CA
~ Palm Beach Jewelry, Art, and Antique Show McColl Fine Art, Palm Beach
~ Naples Art, Antique, and Jewelry Show with Rehs Galleries, Naples, FL
~ Theta Charity Antiques Show with McColl Fine Art Houston, TX
~ Dallas Art, Antique, and Jewelry Show with Rehs Galleries Dallas, TX
~ “White Mountain Art Show and Sale” Museum of White Mountain Art
~ 2nd Annual Plein Air Competition Exhibition, Sagamore Hill, NY
~ “Classical Contemporary” at McColl Fine Art, Charlotte, NC
~ “International Antiques Fair” with McColl Fine Art, Chicago, IL
~ “Landscapes” Wally Findlay Gallery, NY
~ “Hudson River School and White Mountain Art,” Milford, NH
~ “Hudson Valley Contemporary” at Boscobel House Museum, Garrison, NY
~ “Winter Wonderland” at Wally Findlay Gallery, New York, NY
~ “Summer Exhibition” The Banks Gallery Portsmouth, NH
~ “White Mountain Art” Jackson Historical Society, Jackson, NH
~ “ARC Salon 2011” Landscape Finalist
~ “Erik Koeppel: The American Landscape” at Wally Findlay Gallery
~ “White Mountain Art” Jackson Historical Society in Jackson, NH
~ “Winter Scenes” at Wally Findlay Gallery in New York, NY
~ “ARC Salon 2010” Landscape finalist
~ “Take Home a Nude Auction” at Sotheby’s New York, NY
~ “Institute of Classical Architecture and a Classical Benefit Auction” NYC
~ “Works on Paper” at Wally Findlay Gallery in New York, NY
~ “Fete de Swifty” Mayor Fund Benefit in New York, NY
~ “The Hampton Designer Showcase” with Bradley Thiergartner Interiors
~ “Art for the Young Collector” at Wally Findlay Gallery in Palm Beach, FL
~ “Summer Selections” at Wally Findlay Gallery in Palm Beach, FL
~ “ARC Salon 2009” Landscape finalist
~ “Erik Koeppel Artist Talk” at Wally Findlay Gallery in New York, NY
~ “Elegant Realism” at Wally Findlay Gallery in New York, NY
~ “Small Wonders” at Wally Findlay Gallery in New York, NY
~ “Contemporary Works” at Wally Findlay Gallery in New York, NY
~ “Art Hamptons” with Wally Findlay Gallery in Bridgehampton, NY
~ “Summer Salon” at the NYAA in New York, NY
~ “Take Home a Nude Auction” at Phillips de Pury & Company in New York
~ “Singular Creation” at Wally Findlay Gallery in New York, NY
~ “Color Sense” at Wally Findlay Gallery in Palm Beach, FL
~ “Art for the Young Collector” at Wally Findlay Gallery in New York, NY
~ “30th Annual Non-members Exhibition” at the Salmagundi Club, NYC
~ “Summer Landscapes” Group Show at the Jameson Gallery in Portland, ME
~ Paul Toner’s Showcase, in New York, NY
~ “Summer Exhibition” at Jameson Gallery in Portland, ME December
~ “Invitational Landscape Exhibition” at Jameson Gallery in Portland, ME
~ “Open Painting Exhibition” at the Providence Art Club in Providence, RI
~ “Master Thesis Exhibition” at NYAA in New York, NY
~ “What’s your point?” Metal-point Drawing Exhibition at NYAA in New York
~ “Hatching, the Art of Mark Making” at NYAA in New York, NY
~ “New England Exhibition” at the Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA
~ “RISD Senior Class Invitational Exhibition” in Providence, RI
~ “Five Person Show” at the ISB Gallery in Providence, RI.
~ “RISD Departmental Senior Show” at the Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence

HONORS AND AWARDS:

2015 Plein Air Rockies 2015: 1st Place Quick Draw, Mayor of Estes Park
Award, People’s Choice Award, and Artist’s Choice Award. Estes Park, CO
Alden Bryan Memorial Award for Landscape, The Guild of Boston Artists
Accepted to the Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, MA
2014 American Fine Arts Award of Excellence, Art Renewal Center Salon
2013 2nd Prize Art Renewal Center Salon, Landscape, Port Reading, NJ
2012 Art Renewal Center Living Master, Port Reading, NJ
Judge, Teaching Studio of Art 2nd Annual Plein Air Competition, Sagamore Hill, NY
Hudson River Fellowship, Senior Fellow, Hunter, NY 2010-12
Art Renewal Center Salon Landscape finalist 2009, 2010, and 2011
Hudson River Fellowship: one month residency in Hunter, NY 2009

REPRESENTATION:

Rehs Galleries, New York, NY 2012-16
The Guild of Boston Artists, Boston MA 2015-16
Hildt Galleries, Chicago, IL 2013-16
McColl Fine Art, Charlotte, NC 2012-16
New Hampshire Antiques Co-op, Milford, NH 2012-16
Wally Findlay Gallery New York, Palm Beach, L.A. 2007-12
The Banks Gallery, Portsmouth, NH 2010-12
Jameson Gallery in Portland, ME 2006-07

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.

Artist Profile Page: Koeppel, Erik / Categories: Landscape

Other Available Works by this Artist: