Meredith S. Kopelman – SAIC Graduate Exhibition 2022

SAIC SHOWS 2022 GRADUATE EXHIBITIONS

Graduates

SAIC SHOWS 2022 GRADUATE EXHIBITIONS

Meredith S. Kopelman

Master of Fine Arts in Studio, Painting and Drawing

Graduate Exhibition Two (May)

mkopel@saic.edu

meredithkopelmanartist.com

Meredith S. Kopelman graduated cum laude with both Arts and Political Science Bachelor degrees from Knox College in 2008. Meredith earned a Post-Baccalaureate in Painting and Drawing from SAIC in 2020, and is graduating with an MFA in Painting and Drawing from SAIC in May 2022. Galleries exhibited include the Zolla Lieberman Gallery (2020), the Evanston Art Center (2018), and Art + Wine Pairing at Chicago City Winery (2015). Meredith currently lives in Evanston and creates in Chicago, IL.

Meredith’s process reflects everyday experiences through unexpected prisms. She draws on vibrant colors, material explorations, and luminosity through form and line. Painting can be a stage to illustrate life from an emotional reality. By exploring personal narrative, her work interweaves abstraction and representation with memory and fantasy. Meredith’s physical painting process uses the entire body, which allows playfulness, confidence, and spontaneity. Life can be beautiful in all its imperfection and mess.

Meredith S. Kopelman - Sailboat Meets Stained Glass Still Life

Sailboat Meets Stained Glass Still Life, Oil on canvas, 40 x 48 in.

Meredith S. Kopelman - Dreaming Like Water

Dreaming Like Water, Acrylic on canvas, 34 x 40 in.

Meredith S. Kopelman - Searching for Clarity

Searching for Clarity, Monoprint on handmade Thai Kozo paper, 25 x 19 in.

My process reflects everyday experiences through unexpected prisms. I draw on vibrant colors, material explorations, and luminosity through form and line. Painting can be a stage to illustrate life from an emotional reality. By exploring personal narrative, my work interweaves abstraction and representation with memory and fantasy. My physical painting process uses the entire body, which allows playfulness, confidence, and spontaneity. We are all part of a moment in time. Life can be beautiful in all its imperfection and mess.

My everyday experiences range from a chance encounter with an eccentric blue heron, while taking a pause during a morning run. Energy pulses through me, yet I’m at peace with my surroundings. We’re home. Or as my dog, Rocky, runs across the Northwestern sailing beach, we become aware of the sailboats gliding across the water. As sails fill with wind, the atmospheric shift changes with every moment in time. It becomes a very personal narrative, reminding us that in the mist of all the pain and turmoil, what a joy it is to be alive.