Steve Cope

STEVE COPE "Come Across"

LOOSE 7” x 28”, 2015, oil on panel

BIND 7” x 28”, 2015, oil on panel

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BRANDISH 7” x 28”, 2015, oil on panel

CADILLAC 7” x 28”, 2015, oil on panel

THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US

5” x 20”, 2015, oil on panel

TRACK 7” x 28”, 2015, oil on panel

RIFT

7” x 28”, 2015, oil on panel

CROWD

7” x 28”, 2015, oil on panel

SPLIT

7” x 28”, 2015, oil on panel

CROSSROADS OF OLD MEN

5” x 20”, 2014, oil on panel

TARGET

7” x 28”, 2015, oil on panel

MONTANA

5” x 20”, 2013, oil on panel

WISSAHICKON

7” x 28”, 2014, oil on panel

EDUCATION 1992 1986

MFA Boston University BFA Massachusetts College of Art

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 2012 2011 2010 2007 2005 2004 2002 2000 1996

Schmidt Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (February) Steve Cope, Greta Gunderson, Susan Williams, Gerald Peters Gallery, NYC Curious Order, Steve Cope and Tom Judd, The Community Art Center, Wallingford, PA New Works, Schmidt Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Night Watch, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Drawing Circles: A Convergence, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Challenge 1, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA George Waters Gallery, Elmira College, Elmira, NY Z Gallery, NYC

Steve Cope While many of the paintings resemble the places they depict, they are a combination of different photographs, drawings, memories and dreams that all come together to create the finished painting.

During the process of making the paintings, I add things, move things and take things away. It could be trees, rocks, cactus or entire sections. I may scratch the whole side of a painting, and then insert something completely new. I also just plain make stuff up, adding whole passages to transition from place to place. Occasionally, quotations from Master paintings have been inserted into the paintings as a nod to how great those painters were. For example a tree from the Hudson River School painter, Albert Bierstadt, can be seen on the left in “Rift”. “Track”, based on Lake George in upstate New York, is many different places, for example the rock on the right is from the Olympia Mountain Range in Washington State.

At first glance I’d like them to be convincing, even though they are pieced together. Then with a bit of time perhaps you notice they are a little different, but with an equivalent beauty to our planet.

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