New Exhibitions
UNBROKEN THREAD: Landscape and the American Imagination, Philip Koch
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June 4, 2010 - September 5, 2010
In conjunction with the 31st Anniversary of the Midwest Museum of American Art, we present an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Maryland artist Philip Koch with an Opening Reception for the Artist on Sunday, June 6, from 1-4pm. The exhibit continues through September 5. Koch is no stranger to the midwest having been the subject of an exhibit at MMAA in 1995 and, earlier in his career, having graduated with an MFA degree from Indiana University in Bloomington in 1972. The museum acquired the painting, "Edward Hopper's Road", in 1995 after the artist's first exhibit.
The exhibition contains a group of drawings, pastels, and paintings that Koch created over the past seven years at various locations in New England. In his travels to Cape Cod and several places in Maine, he followed in the footsteps of artists from the past from the early 19th Century onward to present. Koch lives in Maryland and is senior Professor of Fine Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. He has achieved national renown as an outstanding landscape painter. Koch feels that artist predecessors influenced his creativity throughout his career. He considers himself very much part of the "unbroken thread" that has evolved through the tradition of depicting New England in art for over 200 years.
Koch's first landscape paintings were done in the hills of southern Indiana in the early 1970's. A former abstract artist, Koch turned to working in a realist direction after seeing the work of Edward Hopper. Since 1983 Koch has enjoyed 12 residencies in Hopper's former painting studio on Cape Cod. Fine Art Connoisseur magazine labeled Koch a "contemporary master."
For more information about the painter Philip Koch go to www.philipkoch.com