Amy Weiskopf Works Biography
Amy Weiskopf, who is known primarily as a still life painter, values the close intimate space of the familiar tabletop. Her compositions are deliberate yet spirited and invite the viewer to consider the relationship of the subjects to each other and to the whole. Her mastery of color and tonality is profoundly apparent in her work.
Born in Chicago in 1957, Amy Weiskopf received her B.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and her M.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, PA. She has exhibited nationally, including in San Francisco, CA and New York, NY and her work can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, as well as in numerous important private collections. Weiskopf currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
BORN 1957 Chicago, IL
EDUCATION
1981-83 MFA, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1975-79 BFA, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2014 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2011 Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
2006 Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
2003 Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Temple Abroad, Rome, Italy, MFA Exhibition
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018-19 Wonders Large & Small, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2018 Vis-à-Vis, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY
Bread & Salt, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
Here & Now, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2015 Tina Freeman: Artist’s Spaces, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orlean, LA
2014 Perceptions of Reality, 849 Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
2013 Duets: Art in Conversation, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY
Still, Blue, William And Florence Schmidt Art Center Southwestern Illinois College, Jessie C. Wilson Galleries Anderson University, Anderson, IN, First Street Gallery, New York, NY, Maryland Hall For The Creative Arts Annapolis, MD
2012 Summer Selections, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
Reflections, Zeuxis traveling Exhibition – Boyle Family Gallery, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO; Rosemary Berkel and Harry L. Crisp II Museum, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO; Sinclair Galleries, Coe College, Cedar Rapids IA; The Painting Center, New York
2011 Masterworks: The Best of Hirschl & Adler, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY
2010 Summer Selections, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
2009-2010 Get Real: Still Life Paintings by Five Louisiana Artists, Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA
2009 Summer Selections, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
Highlights from our Collection, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
2008 Summer Selections, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
Holiday Selections, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
Celebrating Women Artists, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
Contemporary Still Lifes, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2007 Holiday Selections, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
Representation, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Summer Selections, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
2006 Summer Selections, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
2005 Between Perception & Invention: Three Generations of Figurative Artists, Sharon Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Still Lifes from Hackett-Freedman Gallery, Spanierman Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Distilled Life, A Still Life Exhibition by Zeuxis, Prince Street Gallery,
New York, NY
Contemporary Realism, Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN
1998 Select Works: A Group Exhibition featuring Emerging and Established Artists, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915-1995, Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Marsh Art Gallery, Richmond, VA (national traveling show)
1996 Realism ’96, van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Still Lifes, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary American Realist Painters, Halls Crown Center, Kansas City, MO
Flower Paintings, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 Nothing Overlooked: Women Painting Still Life, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Flowers in February, Sherry French Gallery, NYC
1994 Parallax Views, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Contemporary Realists, The Gallery, Halls Crown Center, Kansas City, MO
Selected Gallery Artists, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Flowers, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
1992 The New Whitney Dissenters, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Inaugural Exhibition II, Gallery and Invited Artists, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Still Alive, Contemporary Still Life, Rockford University, IL
Gabriel Laderman Selects, First Street Gallery, New York, NY
1990 The Italian Tradition in American Landscape Painting, 1960-1990,
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; travels to Bayly Museum of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Margulies-Taplin Gallery, Miami, FL
Chicago International Art Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL (also 1989, 1988)
Waiting for Cadmium, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Site-Specific – Available for Commission, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
1989-91 Revelation and Devotion: The Spirit of Religion in Contemporary Art, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY; travels to: Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA; Art Gallery at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN; Valparaiso University Museum of Art, Valparaiso, IN; Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY
1989-90 Love and Charity: The Tradition of Caritas in Contemporary Painting, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY; travels to: Dowd Fine Arts Gallery, SUNY at Cortland, NY; The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ; Roland Gibson Gallery, SUNY at Potsdam, NY; Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, Roanoke, VA
1989 Spectrum, Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
1988 Rutgers Barclay Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Christmas Miniatures, Swain Galleries, Plainfield, NJ
1987-89 Frivolity and Mortality: The Tradition of Vanitas in Contemporary Painting, Sherry French Gallery, NY; travels to: Silvermine Guild of Artists, New Canaan, CT; The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; University of Utah Museum of Art, Salt Lake City, UT; Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA; Schick Art Gallery, SkidmoreCollege, Saratoga Springs, NY; Tyler Art Gallery, Oswego, NY
1987 A Just Temper Between Propensities, The Bayly Art Museum, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
National Invitational Drawings Exhibition, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Spectrum Auction, Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
Studied From Life, The Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
Night Light/Night Life, Sherry French Gallery, NYC
1986 Christmas Miniatures, Swain Galleries, Plainfield, NJ
Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape, 1960-1985, The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, and The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Nature Morte: The Museum Considers the Still Life, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
Jeanne Rovegno, William M. Sullivan and Amy Weiskopf, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Still Life: Life That is Still, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Collector’s Show, The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
1985 Six are Selected: Emerging American Realists, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Umbria – Americans Painting in Italy, Gallery North, Setauket, NY
Gallery Artists: On Paper, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Mood in Landscape, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Art of Our Time, Temple Emanuel, Woodcliff, NJ
1982 Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1979 Steinberg Gallery, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1978 Mallincroft Center, Washington University, MO
TEACHING/LECTURES/VISITING ARTIST
2014 Visiting Artist, Kentucky School of Art
2011 Visiting Critic, New York Academy of Art
2010 Jerusalem Studio School, Summer Program in Italy
1999-2005 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Tulane University
2005 Panelist for “Reinventing the World: The Challenge of Being a Figurative Painter”, Pratt Institute
1993 Adjunct Instructor, Tulane University
1992 Adjunct Instructor, Tulane University Venice (Italy) Summer Program
1990-91 Co-Director, Temple University Gallery, Temple University Rome (Italy) Campus
1989-90 Adjunct Instructor, Temple University, Rome (Italy) Campus
1984-91 Adjunct Instructor, Loyola University of Chicago, Rome (Italy) Campus
1983-84 Art Teacher, The New School, Rome, Italy
AWARDS/GRANTS/RESIDENCIES
2015 Pollock-Krasner Grant
2013 Borgo Finocchieto, Artist Residency
2010 Cite’ Des Arts Internationale, Paris, France, Artist Residency
2003 Louisana Division for the Arts, Artists Grant
1991 Yaddo Artist Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
1980 Skowhengan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Artspace, New York, NY
Deloitte, Haskins and Sells, New York, NY
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO
Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Swain Galleries, Plainfield, NJ
Tatistcheff Gallery, Inc., New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bloomfield, Maureen, “Paint Your Vegetables,” Artist’s Magazine, June 2014
Kemp, John R., “Shapes of Light,” Artist’s Magazine, June 2012
Fensom, Sara E., “On the Table,” Art & Antiques, October 2011
“Amy Weiskopf: Recent Paintings,” Hackett-Freedman Gallery, 2003
“Surprising Still Lifes,” Southwest Art, March 2003
“Where to buy …,” The Week, March 14, 2003
McCollam, Julie, “Preservation Imprint, Artists’ Spaces: Amy Weiskopf; Where Poetry Is”, December, 2002
“Special Delivery,” In Style, February, 2002
De Yambert, Vesta, “Creative Spaces,” New Orleans Homes and Lifestyles, Fall, 2001
Wall, Donna Darian, “Still Here After All These Years,” Southern Accents, March/April, 1999
Hall, David, “Realism for Every Season,” Stonewall’s, 1999
Limaye, Kanchan, “Women’s Work,” American Arts Quarterly, Winter 1998
Hackett-Freedman Gallery, 1987-1997, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, 1997
Kino, Carol, “Realism, The New Hip?”, ARTnews, February, 1997
Sims, Lowery Stokes and Rewald, Sabine, “Still Life, The Object in American Art, 1915-1995, Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art”, American Federation of the Arts and Rizzoli
Publications, 1996
Kemp, John R., “Inspired by European Traditions,” American Artist, September, 1996
Bass, Ruth, “Realism,” Artnews, February, 1996
Freedman, Tracy and Hackett, Michael, “Amy Weiskopf, Recent Paintings,” Contemporary Realist Gallery, 1995
Marquardt-Cherry, Janet, “Nothing Overlooked: Women Painting Still Life,” Contemporary Realist Gallery, 1995
Hollander, John, “Landscape Painting 1960-1990, The Italian Tradition in American Art,” Gibbes Museum of Art, 1990
Schwartz, Jo, “Dealer Captures Museums’ Interest,” Art Business News, February, 1990
Watkins, Eileen, “Art,” The Star-Ledger, December 23, 1988
Lerman, Ora, “Contemporary Vanitas,” Arts Magazine, March, 1988
Latter, Ruth, “Old Technique Emphasized in New Exhibition,” Daily Progress, September 13, 1987
Sims, Lowery S., “Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape,” Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, 1986
White, Claire Nicholas, “A Triumph of Good Schooling,” The Three Village Herald, August 22, 1985
Harrison, Helen A., “Umbria’s Beauty Inspires Artists,” The New York Times, Sunday, August 25, 1985
Bridson, Susan, “Americans Painting in Italy,” The Village Times, August 22, 1985
Rutherford, James, “Noyes Exhibit Displays Brevity, Reality of Modern Life.”, 1985
Preston, Marcolm, “Realist Visions by Americans in Italy,” Newsday, Tuesday, September 3, 1985
