"Room for Contemplation"
Acrylic on Canvas.
48" x 60".
Barbara Krupp
Barbara trained to be an x-ray technician. From that time on, as T.S. Eliot wrote in his "Whispers of Immortality," I have seen "the skull beneath the skin."
The structure of the painting is very important to her, and in her most recent series she has, in a manner of speaking, allowed the bones of the painting-both compositionally and metaphorically, become the painting's' subject matter.
Georgia O'Keeffe, whose early 1940s series of pelvic bones enclosed spaces that later in the decade became forms themselves, she found the areas of interest in her own landscape and floral abstractions to be the atmospheric spaces between forms. She came to realize that the significance in her paintings was not in the forms, but in the spaces in between them.
In her "Abstract Stories" series, those atmospheric spaces became increasing bounded by spontaneously drawn shapes. Painted in shades of ochre-tinted white -the color of bone-- the enclosed spaces began to take on shapes that suggested something as intimate and normally hidden as bone; organic shapes that suggest body parts unveiled here and there as though to tease a lover.
T.S. Eliot ends his poem with; "Our lot crawls between dry bones to keep our metaphysics warm."
She explores the interface between passion and the intellect, pulsing tissue, and desiccated bone.
Our lot may be to crawl through our mortal span but, like the poet, we also sing.
Permanent Installations
2021 Alinari Condominium Collection, Library, Sarasota, FL
2020 Copelouzos Family Museum, 35x35 Art Project, Athens, Greece
2018 University of Tampa, "Graduate and Health Studies Building" Purchase, 53 Original paintings, Tampa, FL
Museum Exhibitions
2022 Vero Beach Museum of Art, Abstract Art: Conceptual Creativity, Vero Beach, FL
2021 Foosaner Museum, Robot Love, Eau Gallie, FL
2020 A.E. Backus Museum, The Best of the Best, Fort Pierce, FL
2020 Rockport Art As. and Museum, Art in the Tavern, Rockport, MA
2020 Copelouzos Family Museum, 35x35 Art Project, Athens, Greece
2017 Toledo Museum of Art, Museum Store, Collectors Corner
2015 Garrett Art Museum, "Cubes of Life" one-person show, Garrett, IN
2013 Canton Museum of Art,"Restoration, Recycling and Remembering" one-person show, Canton, OH
2011 Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH - Toledo Group Exhibition Prize
2020 Awesome Art Prize, Philadelphia, PA - Honorable Mention
2018 Rise Art Prize, London, England - Shortlist
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Solo Exhibitions
2020 Gallery at Park Plaza Hotel "Interconnecting Beauty", Winter Park, FL
2020 Dabbert Gallery, "Language of Color" Sarasota, FL
2019 Ann Jackson Gallery, "Jotting Down Thoughts" Roswell, GA
2019 Dabbert Gallery, "Details and Red Delights" Sarasota, FL
2018 Muse Gallery, Hilton Hotel, "Barbara Gone Wild" Columbus, OH
2018 Pennello Gallery, "Barbara Gone Wild" Cleveland, OH
2016 Dabbert Gallery, "From a Shout to a Whisper" Sarasota, FL
2015 Dabbert Gallery, "Color" Sarasota, FL
2015 Muse Gallery, one-person Show, Columbus, OH
2015 Pennello Gallery, one-person Show, Cleveland, OH
2014 Muse Gallery, "Barbara Krupp at Muse Gallery, Columbus, OH
2014 Dabbert Gallery, "Fog and Mist", Sarasota, FL
2014 Center for Spiritual Care, "Divine beauty' Vero Beach, FL
2013 Dabbert Gallery, "Black and White and Red All Over, Sarasota, FL
2012 Darby Gallery, "Contemporary Master" Vero Beach, FL
2012 Dabbert Gallery, "Hidden Cities" Sarasota, FL
2010 Dabbert Gallery, one-person show, Sarasota, FL
2006 Dabbert Gallery, "Abstract Nature" Sarasota, FL
Group Exhibitions
2022 Five At Grand Harbor, curator, Meredyth Hyatt Moses, Vero Beach, FL
2020 40th Annual Faber Birren Color Show, Stamford, CT
2020 Manhattan Arts, The Spirit Of Resilience, Award of Excellence, NYC
2020 12th annual Manayunk-Roxborough Art Show, Manayunk, PA
2020 Artpact International, Pandemic, The Light Therein, Washington, DC
2020 Avenue Restaurant, St. James St., London, England UK
2020 A Celebration of the Arts, Holy Cross Church, Vero Beach, FL
2019 Gallery 14, "Strokes of Genius", Vero Beach, FL
2019 Artbox Project, Zug, Switzerland, Miami 2.0, Miami, FL
2017 Linus Gallery, "Cuisine and Beast" Long Beach, CA
2017 ArtKudos 2017 International Juried Art Competition and Exhibition
2017 Linus Gallery, "Cuisine and Beast" , Long Beach, CA
2016 Muse Gallery at the Hilton, "Female Force" Columbus, OH
2016 Miami River Art Fair, "Gates of Paradise", Miami, FL
2016 Artbox Project, Spectrum Miami, Miami, FL
2016 Lighthouse Art Center and Museum, "Size Matters", Tequesta, FL
Publications
2022 LandEscape Magazine Biennial Edition London, England
2021 Artistonish Magazine, Canada, France
2021 Art Reveal, Munich, Germany
2021 Copelouzos Family Museum, Catalog Book, 35x35 Art Project, USA
2020 Vero Beach Magazine, by Ann Taylor
2018 Discerner Magazine by Celine Gaurier-Joubert
2018 Vero Beach 32963 "U of Tampa ensures Krupp is the big artist on campus"
2018 SRQ Magazine by Phil Lederer
2013 Artists Home and Studio Schiffer Publishing (this fall)
2013 Listed in Who's Who In American Artists
2012 Artist Portfolio Magazine Full page issue 7
2012 100 Southern Artists Schiffer Publishing
Studied with:
1999 Graham Nickson, Masters Program
1993 Christopher Schink A.W.S.
1982 Lowell Ellsworth Smith, A.W.S.
1976 Fred Leach, A.W.S
Representation
Dabbert Gallery, 46 So. Palm Ave. Sarasota, FL 34236
Barbara Krupp Fine Art Studio, 4315 U.S. Hwy 1, Vero Beach, FL 32967
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