RICHARD KOPPE – GYROSCOPIC
2012-12-03Even before he came under the spell of the New Bauhaus in Chicago, which he attended and subsequently joined as faculty, Richard Koppe (1916-1973) was a consummate modernist. An intense and imaginative formalist, in the mid 1930s he was already dedicated to the play of shape, color, and composition, and the nature of the serial variation. This set of preoccupations, common to a whole generation of American abstract artists in the mid-century, would guide Koppe his entire life, through flirtations with Surrealism and Expressionism, as he worked in many different media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking and design. Koppe’s early work was deeply involved in a highly stylized species of American Cubism, drawing on his studies at Chicago’s Institute of Design with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Gyorgy Kepes and Alexander Archipenko.
Exhibition runs through to January 26th, 2013
Corbett vs. Dempsey
1120 N. Ashland Avenue
3rd Floor
Chicago
Illinois
60622
