Koplin Del Rio celebrates its 42nd year with an exhibition in Los Angeles, the city where the gallery was established. This anniversary exhibition is a celebration of the gallery’s history & the artists we’ve had the privilege of showing and working with over the years, and also serves to acknowledge the distinguished legacy of gallery founder, Marti Koplin. For us, this show is a reflective love-letter as we consider the last 40+ years in art & business and what it means to continuously adapt, evolve, endure & transform as a decidedly small entity centered on art & artists.Loosely shaped around notions of continuum, lineage & adaptation, the exhibition will include work from long-time gallery artists such as Joan Brown, Kerry James Marshall, Robert Pruitt & Laurie Hogin, and, serve to introduce artists from the Pacific Northwest who we’ve recently added to our roster after a relocation to Seattle in 2016.
If you happen to be in LA that week, drop in or better yet, make plans to attend the opening reception. See below.
There have been times in the studio where everything goes to hell-in-a-handbasket. Unless I destroy the drawing first, the drawing is put in storage if I think there might be something to save. After a while, if by rummaging through the reams of rolled up paper, I find it again and I think I might be able to find some hook, I tack it back up on my drawing wall. Beach was one of those discarded, rolled-up drawings I started in 2021 and whose solution came long after working through the other series. The silhouettes behind the posed figures in front came from The Gatherings series–specifically Restrained (see above) and another called Throwback. The pastel is taken from the Erasing series. It resolved within two days.
Beach has been selected for the Provincetown Art Association & Museum Members’ Juried exhibition opening February 16 at 6pm.
These exhibitions represent the work of PAAM’s contemporary artist-members, many of whom live on Cape Cod either full-time or for part of the year. While the work varies greatly in media and approach, each artist-member joins a long roster of distinguished artists who have studied, taught, and exhibited at PAAM over the past 100 years. The exhibition runs from February 9 to April 28. If you get to the Cape, stop in.