At the age of 89, Burton Kopelow is having his first, long-awaited exhibition at the LA Artcore Brewery Annex, opening on February 2, 2014, with a reception from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
Kopelow is a self-taught artist with a large body of work and this retrospective show, which reflects his striking and distinctive abstract style, represents a fraction of his catalogue of over 2,000 pieces. Nearly 100 abstract pieces from the 1970s through today will be on view, ranging from wall-filling works of vibrant, colorful, geometric shapes with touches of irregular tessellation to smaller, more recent works of more organic, free-form abstraction.
In the mid ’70s, in Sacramento, Kopelow codified his artistic vision, influenced heavily by Jung and Theosophy, and began work full time on “Chromorphism,” a series of 29 large canvases, 10 of which will be hung at the LA Artcore show.
Kopelow has since lived in a loft in San Francisco and in the late ’80s became an early resident of the Downtown LA loft scene. Today he lives in Lake Balboa, CA, where he continues to work, despite serious physical disabilities.
LA Artcore Show Dates:
Sunday, February 2 through Thursday, February 27
Hours: Thursday – Sunday, 12 – 5 PM (2/27 closes early at 3 PM)
Wednesdays by appointment only.
LA ARTCORE BREWERY ANNEX
650 A South Avenue 21
Los Angeles, CA 90031
More about the event here. More about the artist here.
