CURRENT

Philip Koch: Landscapes and Hopper Interiors

February 14 - April 12, 2015
Reception: Sat., Feb. 14,  5-7 pm

Edward Hopper House presents a selection of paintings and drawings by Philip Koch (b. 1948), including large. vibrant landscape paintings as well as smaller oils and charcoal drawings of the interiors of both Edward Hopper’s Truro, MA, studio and of Hopper’s Nyack home. 

At the start of his career in the late 1960s, Koch was an abstract painter, but he soon turned to a more realist style when, he says, “[Edward] Hopper came along and tapped me on the shoulder.”   Since 1983, Koch has had 15 residencies in Hopper’s home and studio in Truro, MA, on Cape Cod.  He has also painted in Hopper’s bedroom at the Edward Hopper House.  Spending time in the spaces inhabited by Hopper, seeing the same views, and experiencing the play of light and shadow in the rooms and on the surrounding houses has provided Koch with a unique understanding of Hopper’s work and process.  Koch has used that understanding as a guide as he has forged his own artistic identity. 

Koch, who is a Senior Professor of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, makes regular sojourns to upstate New York and New England, following in the footsteps and painting the same views as the likes of Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer, and the Hudson River School artists he so admires.  "Each generation" says Koch "needs a new image of what our earth looks like in our time. There will always be a need for landscape painters to show us where we live."



Friday, March 6, 7 pm - Artist Gallery talk by Philip Koch.  Exhibiting artist Philip Koch will discuss his work and process and its connection to Edward Hopper. 

 

ONGOING EXHIBITS

Edward Hopper Early work and memborabilia

Ongoing in the Sanborn Gallery
Early drawings, paintings, and etchings together with memorabilia, including model boats made by Hopper, paintboxes, and an easel, are presented on an ongoing basis. 

A Photographic Journey through Hopper's World by Charles Sternaimolo

TEMPORARILY DE-INSTALLED/ DUE BACK EARLY MARCH 2015
By searching through Josephine Hopper’s meticulous notes, studying the work of fellow Hopper scholars, checking with local residents and historians, and even walking through an area in search of a “Hopper scene,” photographer Charles Sternaimolo has identified and documented well over 150 places painted by the artist, culminating in a visual comparison through photography of Hopper’s painted locations.