Sasha Kopelowitz
Primary Medium: Paint
Other media: Drawing, Mixed media, Sculpture
Home Studio
Email: sasha (dot) kopelowitz (at) gmail (dot) com
Website: http://www.sashakopelowitz.com
Artist Statement
I paint intricate abstractions that attempt to give form to libidinal chaos and the drive towards transcendence in the body, soul or unconscious.
These paintings provide the viewer with an immediate intimacy. Close attention will yield the richly detailed places and creatures that inhabit the soft biology of my imagination. There are floating creatures of exuberance and terror. Their fleshy forms and folds can be excited, erotic or terrifying.
Some of the places are temples or structures built from the same substance as the organisms. They are wrapped in multiple layers of brightly colored skins or cloths that surround and protect portals or chambers. Form and color imbue these organisms' skin and flesh with a vibrant corporeal knowledge that pulses with life. I believe that if our psyches had organs, this is what they might look like.
Other media: Drawing, Mixed media, Sculpture
Home Studio
Email: sasha (dot) kopelowitz (at) gmail (dot) com
Website: http://www.sashakopelowitz.com
Artist Statement
I paint intricate abstractions that attempt to give form to libidinal chaos and the drive towards transcendence in the body, soul or unconscious.
These paintings provide the viewer with an immediate intimacy. Close attention will yield the richly detailed places and creatures that inhabit the soft biology of my imagination. There are floating creatures of exuberance and terror. Their fleshy forms and folds can be excited, erotic or terrifying.
Some of the places are temples or structures built from the same substance as the organisms. They are wrapped in multiple layers of brightly colored skins or cloths that surround and protect portals or chambers. Form and color imbue these organisms' skin and flesh with a vibrant corporeal knowledge that pulses with life. I believe that if our psyches had organs, this is what they might look like.
Selected Works
|  Let It Burn - 2007 - gouache and acrylic on paper - 12x16 inches - $525.00  Effluvium - 2008 - gouache and acrylic on paper - 12x16 inches - $600.00  Lot 33 - 2008 - gouache and acrylic on panel - 8 x 10 inches - $400.00 [Fundraiser]  Roiling Mass - 2008 - gouache and acrylic on panel - 8.5 x 10 inches - $450.00  RBSC - 2008 - gouache and acrylic on paper - 12 x 16 inches - $500.00 [Fundraiser]  Song of Knots - 2008 - gouache and acrylic on paper - 12 x 16 inches - $500.00 [Fundraiser] |
Artist Bio
Education
Purchase College, Purchase, NY, May 2006
MFA in Painting
New York University, New York, NY, May 2000
MA in Art Education
Oxford University, Oxford, England, June 1997
MA in Women's Studies
New York University, New York, NY, May 1996
BA Interdisciplinary Major: Art/Film/Psychology
Exhibitions
2009 “In Your Dreams,” The Pen and Brush Gallery, New York, NY
“Trees,” Art Spa, Brooklyn, NY
2008 “Little Pieces,” Art Spa, Brooklyn, NY
“Small Works,” Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY
“Generalized Anxiety Disorder,” Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 “MATRICULATIONS: SUNY Purchase MFA Works,” Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, CT
“Helfand, Kopelowitz, Lutz” Port Chester, NY
2006 “Lumpy, Bumpy and Pink” Chashama, New York, NY
“YEA!: Young Emerging Artists” Arts Exchange, White Plains, NY
“VOICE: Women in Contemporary Art Juried By Kara Walker” Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
“Generations 5,” A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2005-6 "Unrehearsed Acts," Flatfile, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2005 "10-4," Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
"Edgy and Elegant," The Arts Exchange, White Plains, NY
"Postcard Show," A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2004 "All of the Above," Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase College,
State University of New York, Purchase, NY
2002 "Open Studios, Summer Studio Residency," School of Visual Arts, NYC
Bibliography
“Art Knows No Borders,” The Journal News, July 23, 2006
“'YEA!,' a shout-out for young emerging artists,” The Scarsdale Inquirer, June 17, 2006
"Grad student art show at Purchase," Greenwich Times, December 9, 2005
"Some Rich Pickings for the Art Lover" New York Times, October 2, 2005
Residencies and Awards
Anderson Ranch, Art Educator's Institute, Snowmass Village, Colorado 2009
Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, Michigan 2008
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont 2005
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 2002
Slide Registries and Flatfiles
The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Art Space, New Haven, CT
Teaching and Consulting Experience
2009
Adjunct Professor, Instruction and Assessment in the Visual Arts,
Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
2002-4/2006-present
Teacher in art classrooms K-5, White Plains, NY
2004-5/2006-7
Member of the NYC Education Advisory Council, Art21, New York, NY
2006
Drawing and painting instructor in the Summer Visual Arts Institute,
Purchase College, Purchase, NY
2005
Teaching Assistant to Michael Torlen, Introductory Drawing class,
Purchase College, Purchase, NY