Eliza Kopec

Sylvia Okwui Enwezor - contemporary modern abstract geometric painting relief

2014

Eliza Kopec is regarded as a well-established artist who was born in Poland in 1960. She graduated with a BA in graphic arts and drawing from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, Netherlands. After her graduation, Kopec started working as an independent visual artist and initially made many limited edition prints for numerous Dutch magazines. At the turn of the century, she became more and more focussed on making abstract reliefs and paintings based on regularity and geometry. Kopec works with different forms and sizes and she paints on canvas, makes installations with paper and creates paper reliefs. Sometimes monochrome, just white or black, making the repetition and shapes in a work even more apparent. At the same time, she also creates bright multi-colored work. Kopec's work is often built up from basic geometric shapes such as lines, squares and circles and translates rhythm, texts and number series into abstract images, for instance, represented by a defined range of colors. A starting point for many of her works is often concrete subjects like poems, newspaper articles or arithmetic principles. By translating these concrete subjects into shapes or colors, she aims to create universal images of beauty. Kopec's work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows at galleries, art fairs, art circles and museums throughout Europe, including Pulchri Studio, Ars Aemula Naturae, KunstRAI and the Cobra Museum of Modern Art. Kopec’s works are in many private and public collections, including the Yellow Fellow Foundation of Verhoeven collection, Royal KPN, Royal PostNL, Cosmopolitan Hotel Las Vegas and Museum Het Valkhof. In 2018, a monograph was published covering many examples of her paintings, reliefs, drawings and mixed media works.