Chaim Koppelman, a Memorial Exhibition by Marcia Rackow

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Reprinted from— Volume 34 • Number 2 • April 2011 CHAIM KOPPELMAN A Memorial Exhibition By Marcia Rackow at the Terrain Gallery (May-October 2010) was a large, comprehensive show of extraordi- nary beauty honoring the life and work of the pio- neering American artist and printmaker Chaim Koppelman (1920-2009). It surveyed the artist’s ex- tensive career from the 1940s to the 21st century and showed new, large meaning in this principle he loved, stated by Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism, “All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.” The opposites of Truth and Imagination, so rich and surprising in Chaim Kop- pelman’s work, made this exhibition memorable. The themes he pursued over the years— Napoleon, the Etcher, the Family, Couples—always have something fresh, unexpected, something you haven’t seen before, not only in the technique— amazing relations of light and dark in etching, aquatint, embossment, ink, charcoal, pastel, oil—but also in his insightful ideas. Said Will Barnet: “He was brilliant, both in printmaking and painting. His work has a sense of darkness and light that is unique, and of life—an observation, that is unusual and exciting, of what takes place between people. There was this profundity in him, and this sense of humanity. And it was developed through Aesthetic Realism.” I agree! The artist’s study with Eli Siegel, begin- ning in the 1940s, enabled him to understand the true dramas within people and deal with them imaginatively, visually, with a depth, critical kind- ness, and humor that is new in art. Chaim Koppelman’s work is in major museums here and abroad. An esteemed member of the Na- tional Academy, he was president of the Society of American Graph ic Artists, and recipient of numer- ous awards, including SAGA’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He taught at NYU, SUNY New Paltz, the School of Visual Arts, and the Aesthetic Realism Foundation. Selections from the exhibition can be seen at TerrainGallery.org and at theoldprintshop.com..

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