Eliza Kopec

Eliza Kopec (1960, Poland) graduated with a BA in graphic art and drawing from the (today) Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. After her graduation she 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. Her work is often built up from basic geometric shapes such as squares and circles and translates rhythm, texts and number series into abstract images, for instance represented by a defined range of colours. Starting point for many of her works are often concrete subjects like poems, newspaper articles or arithmetic principles. By translating these concrete subjects into shapes or colours she aims to create universal images of beauty.

Today, Eliza Kopec is widely acknowledged for her large paintings and powerful paper reliefs that use the effect of light, shadow and reflections resulting in works of art that challenge the observers perception. Her work is exhibited throughout Europe and is part of many national and international private and public collections such as KPN, TNT Post but recently also the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas.