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Philip Koch
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About
Philip Koch
Koch is well known for his colorful, panoramic landscapes. Less known is that he was originally an abstract artist. A pivotal event for him was seeing the work of Edward Hopper. It inspired him early in his career to change to painting in a realist direction. Koch has been given unprecedented access to Hopper’s studio on Cape Cod, enjoying 17 residencies there since 1983, an honor granted to no other living American artist.
Artist Statement
People often remark my paintings are a celebration of light and shadow. They're right. Becoming aware of the character of the light that surrounds us is just part of opening up ones senses. It's a way to feel more alive. When I was very young my eyes were opened to light in an unusual way. My family lived in a deep forest on the shore of Lake Ontario, the northernmost border of the US. As kids we were free to roam far away from our house into unfamiliar parts of the woods. I told my father I worried I might become lost. He smiled and told me I could find my way back to the our home by studying the sunlight- that we lived so far north the shadows cast by the trees pretty much always pointed north to the Lake. As luck would have it not long after that I did get lost. Following my dad's advice I found my way again.
Solo Museum Exhibitions
2022 Ogunquit Museum of American Art, ME
2018 Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2017 Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN (also 2001 & 1995))
2014-15 Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD (also 1995)
2011-12 Saginaw Art Museum, MI (also 1996)
2011-12 Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA
2010 Clymer Museum of Art, Ellensburg, WA
2010 Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN (also 1995)
2009 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA (also 2003)
2002 Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA (two artist exhibition)
2002 Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, WI (catalogue)
1998 Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA (catalogue)
1995 Butler Institute of American Art, Salem, OH
1994 Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2017 Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Ellsworth, ME (two artis exhibition)
2015 Edward Hopper House Museum and Study Center, Nyack, NY (also 2012)
2013 Inside Edward Hopper’s World: Paintings by Philip Koch, Isalos Fine Art, Stonington, ME
2012-13 George Billis Gallery, New York (also 2009)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 125! Masterworks from the Collection, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, IA
2018 Hopper’s World: New York, Cape Cod and Beyond, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, IA
2017 23 Pairs: Considering Compare and Contrast, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
2017 After Hopper, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
Awards and Honors
1983-2018 Seventeen Residencies in Edward Hopper’s former painting studio, Truro, MA
2015-18 Artist in Residence, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Bibliography
2021 Fine Art Connoisseur , feature on Somerville Manning Gallery solo exhibition, March issue
2019 Hyperallergic magazine, A View from the Studio
Museum Collections
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Ft. Dodge, IA
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA
Eskenazi Art Museum, Bloomington, IN
Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MI
Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
University of Maryland Global Campus College Park, MD
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
Wilson College Permanent Collection, Chambersburg, PA
Teaching
1973-2019 Professor of Fine Art, Maryland Institute College of Art
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