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The Landscapes of
Philip Koch
November
7, 2004 - January 9, 2005
UMUC
Arts Program Gallery
Lower Level
Inn and Conference Center
Adelphi, Maryland
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Opening
Reception
Sunday, November 7
3-5 p.m.
RSVP
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RETROSPECTIVE
: 1971 - 2004 |
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 This
exhibition is about Philip Koch and his creative endeavors over
the past 33 years. It is a retrospective of his drawings, oil sketches
and paintings, and pastels from 1971 until the latest painting
in the show, just off his easel.
On a philosophical level, the exhibition is a journey from his first
artworks, which are characterized by exploration, learning,
and the establishment of an impressive stylistic and iconographic
vocabulary, to the latest ones, which communicate the excellence
of mature pictorial means and personal expression. |
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Koch
is a Maryland artist and professor of fine art
at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore,
one of the oldest and most acclaimed art schools
in the country.
 His
journey as an artist began in his freshman
year at Oberlin College, Ohio, when he decided
to be a professional artist. Along with his
concentration in studio art, he took various
art history courses as an undergraduate and
later as a graduate student at the University
of Indiana, Bloomington. His immersion in the
study of 17th-century Dutch landscape painting
became an interest that remained a powerful
influence on his art since then.
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 Other precursors include
the Hudson River School (the first notable group
of 19th-century American artists specializing
in landscape), George
Inness, Winslow
Homer, the 20th-century modernist Rockwell
Kent, and realist Edward Hooper. |
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