PHYLLIS KOPPEL
CANADIAN ART GALLERY ORIGINAL PAINTINGS
FIRST NATIONS MAN
Mixed Media on Canvas
24" X 24"
Listed Price $1,300.00 CDN
We are very pleased to welcome new Canadian artist Phyllis Koppel to ArtBeat Gallery and to Canada as well. The paintings created by this new Canadian artist are all original works of art mounted on framed canvas. Phyllis' paintings explore cultural themes that many different cultures have in common. The most charming examples of this type of cross cultural subject matter are the paintings of clay pots from all over the world.
This is a wonderful way to bring differing cultures from around the world together to celebrate their differences and also their similarities of events, objects, function and form.
As a brand new Canadian, Phyllis has absolutely captured the spirit of Canadianism. Diversity, inclusion and admiration for all people of all ethnicity.
Contact Phyllis Koppel at
E-mail Address koppel_phyllis@yahoo.com
Website www.absolutearts.com/phylliskoppel
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About Phyllis Koppel
All images in this gallery are owned & copyrighted exclusively by Phyllis Koppel. Images may NOT be reproduced or republished without the permission of the artist.
All of Phyllis' paintings are highly textured mixed media, gallery mounted on canvas. Sizes & prices are listed below each photo.
WORKS of ART by PHYLLIS KOPPEL
New Paintings 2010
by Phyllis Koppel
TREES REFLECTED
Original Painting on Canvas
45" X 23"
2010
Listed Price $1,800.00
OREO
Original Painting on Canvas
24" X 24"
2010
Listed Price $800.00
MELLISSA and ALI
Original Painting on Canvas
March 2010
24" X 24"
Commissioned - Not For Sale
ROAMING FREELY
AROUND the WORLD
Original Painting on Canvas
2009 30" X 31"
Commissioned - Not For Sale
JUST BEAT IT
Original Painting
Mixed Media on Canvas
39" X 30"
Listed Price $1,800.00 CDN
IN THE PITS - PASS IT ALONG
Original Painting
Mixed Media on Canvas
39" X 27"
Listed Price $1,600.00 CDN
END of WORK DAY
Original Painting
Mixed Media on Canvas
24" X 47"
Listed Price $1,200.00 CDN
LO HICE YO
Original Painting
Mixed Media on Canvas
25" X 38"
Listed Price $1,500.00 CDN
IN A PINCH
Original Painting
Mixed Media on Canvas
28" X 38"
Listed Price $1,600.00 CDN
FOUR ADOBE POTS
Original Painting
Mixed Media on Canvas
48" X 46"
Listed Price $2,500.00 CDN
TAOS POTTERY
Original Painting
Mixed Media on Canvas
28" X 25.5"
Listed Price $800.00 CDN
HISPANIC MAN
Original Painting
Mixed Media on Canvas
24" X 24"
Listed Price $1,300.00 CDN
ABOUT TO TIE THE KNOT
Original Painting
Mixed Media on Canvas
26" X 33"
Listed Price $1,100.00 CDN
ABOUT PHYLLIS KOPPEL
Phyllis Koppel was born in Mexico City to American
parents and now has chosen Canada as her home. She spent her formative years there
and then moved to San Diego, California with her family. Always the avid traveller, she intended to
take a year off between high school and university to see the world. Instead, she travelled to Israel where she
decided to settle for the next five years. Eventually she returned to San Diego
to study visual arts with an emphasis on photography at the University of California,
San Diego.
Photography took her to New York City where she
documented causes of poverty and social injustice in the early 90’s. That same need to speak and represent the
less fortunate led her to join the U.S. Peace Corps in 1992 where her tour of
duty took her to the Caribbean island of St. Kitts. As a volunteer, she taught visual arts to
high school students, organized island-wide student exhibitions and served as
vice-president of the newly created St. Kitts Art Teachers’ Association. Having finished her tour, the government of
St. Kitts asked her to stay on and granted her permanent residency. She remained in St. Kitts for another twelve
years. It was during these years that
Phyllis took up painting, informed primarily by the colors and shapes around
her, always trying to find the simple things that unite us as cultures.
Phyllis recently arrived in Canada to pursue painting
full time. Her work has concentrated on
the themes of cultures and their implements, in this case, vessels, pots and
vases. Her first series is a study of
clay pots used by different cultures, usually residing in dark forgotten
places. From there, she created a series
of 10 portraits depicting the cultures she found in Toronto. The portraits are tightly cropped, the
subject head-on. Highly textured pieces
of clothing or head gear identify the sitter’s culture. Currently, she is working on a series which
marries the themes above by showing different cultures using pots in various
ways, always as a means of survival, the underlying metaphor of this new body
of work.
WORK HISTORY
EDUCATIONWORK HISTORY
Art Educator, The Amazing Art Place, Markham, ON, present
Art Educator, Victoria Academy, Thornhill, ON, present
Special Portrait Coater, Brushstrokes Fine Art, Inc, Markham, ON, 2008
Relocation Specialist, Vamos a Canada, Thornhill, ON, 2008
Visual Arts Educator, Ministry of Education, St. Kitts, W.I., 1994-2006
Volunteer Art Educator, U.S. Peace Corps , Eastern Caribbean, 1992-1994
Assistant VP, Ext. Affairs, Local Initiatives Support Corp., New York City, 1991-1992
Marketing Director, AFS Intercultural Programs, New York City, 1988-1991
B.A. Visual Arts & Journalism
University of California
San Diego, USA
GPA: 3.84 Graduated Magna cum laude
SHOW & EXHIBITIONS
2008
2007
Group Show, NUIT BLANCHE, Toronto, ON
2006
Winner Best in Show, SUMMER EXHIBITION, Parkdale, ON
2 Group Shows, Starbucks, Toronto ON
Group Show, William Stephen Gallery, Toronto, ON
Group Show, 6 St. Joseph's House, Toronto, ON
Solo Show, One of a Kind Spring Show, National Exhibition Centre, Canada
Teacher of the Year Award, Federation of St. Kitts-Nevis
World Bank grant to create photography darkroom in rural highschool
1992-2005
Represented by Spencer-Cameron Gallery, St. Kitts, West Indies
Faculty Art Exhibitions
Selected to produce a video & travelling art exhibit for the US Peace Corps
Group Show, HERITAGE, West Indies 1993 - Awarded 3rd Place
1985-1991
Group Shows, New York City, Long Island & New Jersey Art Galleries
Juried Photography Show, Centre For The Arts, Philadelphia, Best 2 Dimensional Artist Award
Graduate Solo Art Exhibition, University of California, San Diego, US
Group Student Exhibitions
Contact Phyllis Koppel
koppel_phyllis@yahoo.com
Website www.absolutearts.com/phylliskoppel