Artist Roster

BARRY KOPLOWITZ

Fine Artist

I started painting in my teens, in Brooklyn, NY. My first 10 years painting were as a self-taught painter, doing Plein Air on the Brighton Beach/Coney Island beaches and streets, as well as studio fantasy paintings. The beach and boardwalk continue to be important subjects for me. 

In my 20's, I studied under Lester Polakov, at the Studio and Forum of Stage Design, in the Greenwich Village district of Manhattan. After working with Lester, I took the skills I'd learned for painting theatrical scenery, to the Interior Design industry, doing interior Murals, Trompe L'oeil and other decorative painting. 

In time, I rediscovered the fine artist within me, and moved back to Fine Art, doing both Plein Air and Studio painting, as well as teaching. However, this time, I brought the technical skills I had learned to the freedom and joy I had at the start.

While I still do a few interior murals per year, the overwhelming body of my work is done on linen or paper within my studio in Delaware, or outdoors.

My work is both Figurative and Landscape. In my Figurative work, I am focused on a moment between a small group of people, or someone alone in a space where others may join them. My Landscape work is mostly of the coastline, but not exclusively so. In both cases, my focus is of a single moment in time, with all its influences and complexities. Light and color, as well as sense of drama, are driven by structurally abstract composition, painted in a form of contemporary realism.

I've taught in NJ, PA and DE and continue to offer workshops on an ongoing basis through local art leagues.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 2024 Tubbs Gallery, “Costal Forms and Light” Rehoboth, DE

2024 The Mooring at Lewes, Lewes, DE 

2018 Exhibit B Gallery, “Figurative Paintings and Drawings of Barry Koplowitz” Lambertville, PA 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2024 Peninsula Gallery, "Larger than Life" 4-Person Exhibition, Lewes, DE

2024 Spilsbury Gallery, Arts Club of Washington, DC 

2023 Spilsbury Gallery, Arts Club of Washington, DC

2023 Mispillian Art League, Milford, PA 

2019 Piquel Gallery, Resident Artist, New Hope, PA  

2019 Piquel Gallery, Resident Artist, Lambertville, NJ

2019 The Salmagundi Club “Summer Show” New York, NY

2018 Piquel Gallery, Resident Artist, New Hope, PA

2018 Piquel Gallery, Resident Artist, Lambertville, NJ

2018 The Salmagundi Club “Centennial Exhibition” New York, NY

2018 The Rice Gallery of Fine Art, “3rd Annual Juried Plein Air Show” Overland Park, KS 

2018 New Hope Art League “Annual Juried Show” New Hope, PA 

2018 The Salmagundi Club “110th Annual Thumb Box Exhibition” New York, NY

2018 Philadelphia Sketch Club “155th Annual Juried Exhibition of Small Oils” Philadelphia, PA

2018 The Salmagundi Club “Summer Member's Exhibition” New York, NY

2018 The Artists of Yardley 7th “Annual Juried Exhibition” Yardley, PA

2018 The Salmagundi Club “Spring Auction” New York, NY

2017 Cathy Kline Gallery, “NOAPS Small Works Show” Parkville, MO

2017 Artists of Yardley, “Faculty Student Invitational” Yardley, PA

2017 2nd Annual Bucks County Plein Air Festival, Newtown, PA

2017 New Hope Art League Fall Show, New Hope, PA

2017 Philadelphia Sketch Club “154th Annual Juried Exhibition of Small Oils” Philadelphia, PA

2017 “Annual Artists of Yardley Exhibition” Yardley, PA

2017 Artists of Yardley 12th Annual Members Exhibit, Yardley, PA

2017 Savvy Painter Podcast Juried Online Competition December

2016 Castle Gallery of Fine Art, Oil Painters of America “2016 Juried Salon Show” Fort Wayne, IN

2016 The Rice Gallery of Fine Art, “2nd Annual Juried Plein Air Show” Overland Park, KS 

2016 New Hope Historical Society, “Artists Alive Exhibition” New Hope, PA

2016 “Paint It! Ellicott City” Ellicott, MD

2016 1st Annual Bucks County Plein Air Festival 2016, Juried Artist, Newtown, PA

2016 5th Annual Artists of Yardley Exhibition, Juried Artist, Yardley, PA

2016 Plein Air Magazine’s, “5th Annual Plein Air Salon” Online 

2016 “Annual Plein Air Event,” Chadd’s Ford, PA 

AWARDS

 2023 The Arts Club of Washington Members Summer Exhibition June 9 to July 28, 2023 | Award of Excellence

2017 Pennridge Gallery of the Arts—Arts in the Parlor Exhibition, Honorable Mention, Pennridge, PA

2017 The Barn Studio Gallery, 2nd Place Award, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

PRESS & COLLECTIONS 

Featured Artist with Interview and Cover Artist, Radius Magazine, Summer 2018 Issue 

Interviewed by Plein Air Magazine for "Artist as Collector," Outdoor Painter, 12/2016

Reviewed in “Why This Works” Section, PleinAir Today Newsletter in OutdoorPainter, March, 2016

 Sanderson Museum Collection–Chadds Ford, PA

Various Features in Bucks County Courier 

SPEAKING EVENTS

Artist Talk at The Mooring at Lewes, Lewes, DE – 2024

Artist Guest Speaker at Bucks-Mont Art League, PA – 2018

Artist Guest Speaker at Doylestown Art League, Doylestown, PA – 2018

NATIONAL AFFILIATIONS 

Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC 

Salmagundi Club, New York, NY (2018 - 2023)

American Impressionist Society 

Oil Painters of America

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

“For the past several years, I have been exploring ways to represent the beauty of rock jetties on coastal beaches, along with the forms and light that each season and time of day offers us. To me, my paintings of these rocks are portraits, and I approach them as individuals in a group. One of the compliments I enjoy the most is when someone recognizes a group of individual rocks in a larger jetty. 

My paintings are often of the same location in different seasons, times of day, weather and from different perspectives. I continue to explore them in Oils, Charcoal, Ink, Acrylic, gouache, and Graphite. Always striving to make each piece completely individual and unique.

My figurative work attempts to show moments shared by individuals, or a private moment alone. They may be of people on a boardwalk, pub, or sitting in a park—or a jetty.

I’m driven by color, and an abstract sense of composition, painted in a contemporary approach to realism.”