Canfin Gallery - Ira Barkoff - Abstract Landscape Painting Artist

IRA BARKOFF

Artist Statement

” Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.’ Leonardo De Vinci spoke these words 500 years ago and was true then, as it is now.

My landscapes are taken from my imagination. It’s true that I spent many years painting from nature, and that nature is the source of my inspiration. Having learned the principles of color, form, light and space, my aim is to use these principles to represent the world as an expression of harmony and peace.

The most successful paintings are not those that are the most accurate in terms of nature, but the ones where the state of my consciousness allowed me to translate my feelings –my deepest inner feelings – to the canvas.

I would hope that this is communicated to the viewer, and that in looking at this world one is transported to the inner spirit that exists within all of us.”

About Ira Barkoff

Ira Barkoff, born 1934, studied at the Art Students League in New York under Robert Beckman and Robert Beverly Hale (former curator of American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and went on to earn a Fine Arts degree at New York’s Pratt Institute. Currently, he lives and works in Connecticut and also teaches at the Washington Art Association.

Barkoff’s work has been extensively featured in publications, including in The New York Times and American Artist Magazine. His work can be found often in solo exhibitions in galleries all along the East Coast, while his juried and group exhibitions span the country. His work is featured in numerous collections, like that of the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Durham Ziff Collection in New York and Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan

EXHIBIT of New Works by IRA BARKOFF at Canfin Gallery, from October 13-28, 2012. All artwork is now available and viewable at the gallery. Opening reception is Saturday October 13, from 5 to 8pm, with the artist Ira Barkoff.