Louis Copt
- Home/Studio 1935 E. 850 Road Lecompton, Kansas 66050 785-887-3943
- Email- lcopt@direcway.com Web- www.louiscopt.com
- Selected Exhibitions/Competitions
- 2004
- MOAK Four State Regional Exhibit, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Mo
- Kansas Artists and the Flint Hills, Rotunda Exhibit Kansas Capitol Building.
- Annual one man show, Leopold Gallery, Kansas City, Mo.
- Painting exhibited in the office of the Kansas Governor
- "Homage to the Flint Hills", two year traveling exhibit of the best of Kansas landscape
painters
- "Conversations With Earth and Sky" One man show, Strecker-Nelson Gallery Manhattan, Ks
- 2003
- Feature story on Prairie Fire Paintings, August issue of
American Artist Magazine
- Photo essay of recent Prairie Fire Paintings in KANSAS! Magazine
- One Man Show, Leopold Gallery, Kansas City, MO
- Lawrence on Your Own Juried Show, Lawrence, KS
- 2002
- One Man Show, Leopold Gallery, Kansas City, MO
- One Man Show, Wichita Gallery of Fine Art, Wichita, KS
- 2001
- One Man Show, Leopold Gallery, Kansas City, MO
- National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society 11th Annual
Exhibition, Osage Beach Missouri
- Lawrence on Your Own Juried Show, Fields Gallery, Lawrence, Ks
- "A Season of Change", Group show, Wichita Gallery
of Fine Art, Wichita, Ks
- 2000
- Kansas Triennial, Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, Ks
- Kansas Watercolor Society Seven State Exhibition, Wichita Gallery of
Fine Art, Wichita, Ks, Janet Fish juror
- Heartland USA, Merriam Community Center, Merriam, Ks
- Kansas Landscapes, Group Show, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, Ks
- Kansas Watercolor Society Honor Show, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Ks
- Bert Nash Group Exhibition of Mental Health Poster Artists, Bert Nash Center,
Lawrence, Ks
- 1999
- Strecker Gallery Millennium Show, Strecker Gallery, Manhattan, Ks
- Prairie to Paris, Group show of artists on the 1999 Lawrence Art Center
Art Quest Trip, Lawrence Art Center
- Three Person Show, Roy's Gallery, Lawrence, Ks
- Corporate Woods Annual Juried Exhibition, Stephen Doherty, Juror. Overland Park, Ks
- 1998
- Sharing the Vision, Three Person Show, Paintings of the Kansas Flint
Hills. Phoenix Gallery, Topeka, KS
- Kansas City Artists Coalition "River Market Regional" Jeremy Strick
juror, Kansas City MO, two pieces accepted. Award winner
- Corporate Woods "Art in the Woods '98", Neil Welliver juror,
Overland Park, Kansas. Juror's Choice Award, Patron Purchase Award
- Coutts Memorial Museum of Art, three -person show. El Dorado, KS
- McGrath/Dunham Gallery, "10 New Artists for '98", Castine, Maine
- Juror for Lawrence Art Guild "Kansas Visions" competition
- 1997
- Top Finalist, The Artist's Magazine National Competition,
Landscape Division
- "Kansas Profiles" Louis Copt, Robert Sudlow, John G. Brown
Roy's Gallery, Lawrence, KS
- One person show, Ottawa Arts Council Gallery, Ottawa, KS
- "I, Kansas" Louis Copt, Jim Brothers, Ernst Ulmer, Phoenix Gallery,
Topeka, KS
- "Three Person Show" Gallery at the Sheraton Suites, Eva Reynolds
Fine Art, Country Club Plaza, Kansas City, MO
- Featured speaker, Topeka Art Guild Annual Meeting, Topeka, KS
- "Reflections of Kansas" regional small works competition. Two works accepted. Nations Bank, Hays, KS
- Juror, Topeka Art Guild Annual Summer Exhibition. Topeka Public
Library Gallery, Topeka, KS
- "Kansas Contemporary" group show, Strecker Gallery, Manhattan, KS
- Lawrence Art Guild, All Member Show, Lawrence, KS
- 27th Annual Smoky Hill Art Exhibition, Hays Arts Center, Hays, KS
- 1996
- "The Changing Landscape" one person show, Lawrence Art Center
- "Kansas Landscapes" four person show, Strecker Gallery, Manhattan, KS
- Lawrence Arts Center Faculty Show
- Featured Artist, Landscape Show, Hutchinson Art Center, Hutchinson, KS
- Finalist, The Artist's Magazine Landscape Competition. Dean Mitchell, juror
- "Nature: Form and Vision" Three-person show, Hays Arts Council, Hays, Ks
- Lawrence Art Guild All Member show, Lawrence, Kansas
- 27th Annual Smoky Hill Art Exhibition, Hays Art Center, Hays, Kansas
- Artwork selected for the 1996 Artist's Magazine Calendar
- 1995
- One-Person Show, "The Canyon Revisited" Phoenix Gallery, Topeka, KS
- KRATES Touring Exhibit, selected pieces from the Kansas Watercolor Society Winter Invitational, Salina Arts Center, Salina, KS
- "Art Today" works by Emporia State University Alumni, Eppink Gallery
Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
- One Person Show, "The South of France" Gallery Pompeii, St. Louis, MO
- "Fields of Vision" landscape show, Kansas City, KS Public Library
- Two-person landscape show, Colombian Theater Gallery, Wamego, KS
- "Art in the Woods" Corporate Woods Annual Juried Show, Overland Park, KS
- "Realism '95" Juried show, Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, WV
- Kansas Watercolor Society Invitational, Barton Co. Community College,
Hutchinson, KS
- Finalist, The Artist's Magazine Dream Studio Contest
- 1994
- "Paris and Home Again" one-person show, Phoenix Gallery, Topeka, KS
- "Art in the Woods" Corporate Woods Annual Juried Show, Overland Park, KS
- 1993
- "Then and Now" three-person show, Strecker Gallery, Manhattan, KS
- Featured Artist, Holton Arts Council Annual Fund-raiser, Holton, KS
- "Art in the Woods" Corporate Woods Annual Juried Show, Overland Park, KS
- "Small Oils" group show, Wichita Gallery of Fine Art, Wichita, KS
- 1992
- "New Works" one-person show, Phoenix Gallery, Topeka, KS
- "Art in the Woods" Corporate Woods Annual Juried Show, Overland Park, KS
- Kansas Watercolor Society Five-State Juried Exhibition, Wichita Art Museum
- Kansas Arts Commission / Lawrence Lithography Workshop Grant
- Watercolor painting article for The Artist's Magazine
- 1991
- "Land Ho!" group landscape show, Union Hill Gallery, Kansas City, MO
- Kansas Watercolor Society Five-State Juried Exhibition, Wichita Art Museum
- 1990
- International Pastel Exhibition, Kansas Pastel Society, Wichita Art Assoc.
- Group Show of Lawrence artists, Eutin, Germany
- SeriesXIII Kansas Postcard Artist competition winner
- American Artist Magazine Award "Pastel 90" Midwest Pastel Society, 5th
National, Chicago, IL
- Purchase Awards, Art in the Woods, Overland Park, KS
- "Kansas 9" Juried Exhibition, Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka and Wichita Art
Museum, Wichita, KS
- 1981-89
- Participation in over 50 group and individual juried and non-juried exhibits
- Education
- University of Kansas, Life Drawing with Robert Brawley, Spring, 1996
- University of Kansas, Landscape Painting with Bob Sudlow, Fall, 1986
- Art Students League, New York, NY, summer 1985
- Emporia State University, Emporia, KS Bachelor of Arts, l971
- Corporate Collections
- Russell Stover
- Yellow Freight Systems
- Black and Veatch
- Kansas Farm Bureau
- Twentieth Century
- Emprise Bank
- Bank IV
- First Bank
- First National Bank,Columbia MO
- Alaskan Furs
- First National Bank, Fredonia
- Feree and Bunn Accounting
- DeBruce Grain
- Maupintour Inc.
- Kansas Geological Survey
- Dept. of the Interior Museum
- Hill's / Colgate, Tokyo
- Heartland China City of Hiratsuka, Japan
- Overland Park Convention Center
- Security Benefit Life World Headquarters
- Museum Collections
- Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas University, Lawrence, Kansas
- Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, University of Kansas at Manhattan
- Coutts Memorial Museum of Art, El Dorado, Kansas
- Selected Commission Work
- 2003
- Outdoor mural collaboration with Stan Herd for downtown Emporia
- "Spring in
the Flint Hills" - 40' x 70'
- 2002
- Security Benefit Life Corporate Headquarters, 5' x 12' Prairie Fire Painting
- 2000
- Seven landscape paintings for the Prairie Fire Restaurant, downtown Lawrence
- 1998
- Beginning of Fall River, Acrylic on Canvas for Kansas Senator Franklin Gaines
- 1997
- Painting and video for Payless ShoeSource Corporate Headquarters
- 1996
- Artwork selected for KANU-FM fund raising note card
- Painting selected for l996 Spirit of Kaw Valley United Way note card
- 1994
- Three paintings selected for reproduction for a 4-state promotion to wheat farmers by Du Pont. Art Direction by Saatchi and Saatchi, New York
- 1993
- Painting and series of prints for Kansas Farm Bureau 75th anniversary
- 1993
- Series of watercolors and board portrait for Clarkson Hospital, Omaha, NE
- 1992
- Painting as a gift from City of Lawrence to sister city Hiratsuka, Japan
- 1991
- Official artist for the Kansas Geological Survey 16-day expedition to
rephotograph sites on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon
- Workshops / Classes Taught / Art Tours Led
- 2003-4
- Lawrence Art Center, Painting Lab, oil and watercolor, figure painting
- 2002
- Lawrence Art Center, Watercolor, beginning and advanced class
- 2001
- Tour Leader, Artquest painting tour to Italy
- Lawrence Art Center, Watercolor, beginning and advanced class
- 2000
- University of Kansas, Adjunct Professor, Drawing Media for Illustration
- Lawrence Art Center, Painting Lab
- Lawrence Art Center, Beginning Watercolor
- Tour leader, ArtQuest painting tour to Madrid and Barcelona
- 1999
- University of Kansas, Adjunct Professor, Drawing Media for Illustration
- Paris Painting Workshop, 10 day painting/museum trip to France
- Watercolor II, Lawrence Arts Center (two sections)
- Second Annual Demo Derby, Lawrence Arts Center
- Topeka Art Guild Watercolor Workshop, Topeka, KS
- 1998
- Watercolor Painting, Lawrence Arts Center
- Acrylic Painting, Media Workshops, Lawrence Arts Center
- Art Lecture Series for the New Generation Society, Lawrence, KS
- Polaroid Transfer Workshop for Strecker Gallery, Manhattan, KS
- Kansas Flint Hills Painting Trip, Lawrence Arts Center
- 1997
- The Artist in Business, Kansas Small Business Development Center
- Art Appreciation for Adults, Lawrence Art Center
- Two-day Workshop in watercolor, acrylic and pastel, Topeka Art Guild
- Watercolor Workshop, Strecker Gallery, Manhattan, KS
- 1996
- Watercolor Workshop, Lawrence Art Center
- Acrylic Workshop, LAC
- Art Appreciation for Adults, LAC
- Past and Present Arts Organizations / Memberships
- Association of Community Arts
- Lawrence Art Guild
- Agencies of Kansas
- Kansas City Artist's Coalition
- Kansas City Bar-B-Q Society
- Friends of Hiratsuka
- Kansas Watercolor Society
- Lawrence Arts Commission
- Numerous paintings donated to Lawrence Art Auction and other charitable events.
- 2000 Phoenix Award Winner
Presented by the Lawrence Arts Commission
- Internet Site
Please visit www.louiscopt.com to view selected paintings.
Copyright 2004 Louis Copt
