Earth’s Shadow: Landscapes by Philip Koch at George Billis Gallery

Earth’s Shadow: Landscapes by Philip Koch

December 11, 2012 – January 19, 2013

Reception Thursday, December 13, 6-8 p.m.

George Billis Gallery

521 W. 26th St.

New York, NY 10001

Ascension, oil on panel, 40 x 32″

Early on Philip Koch was inspired by the color and energy of modern art. Through his paintings he casts his modernist influenced eye back on the long tradition of American landsape panoramas from the 19th century. Based in Baltimore, he travels frequently to New England and upstate New York to paint in the same locations that inspired Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer, and the Hudson River School artists he admires. “Each generation” says Koch “needs a new image of what our earth looks like in our time. There will always be a need for landscape painters to show us where we live.”