Alan Koppel Gallery

Alan Koppel Gallery Alan Koppel Gallery at 806 N Dearborn Street in Chicago is dedicated to showcasing significant artworks from the 20th and 21st century.

Martin Eder is a contemporary German artist who blends hyperrealism, surrealism, and kitsch to explore fantasy and melan...
08/11/2025

Martin Eder is a contemporary German artist who blends hyperrealism, surrealism, and kitsch to explore fantasy and melancholy. His pieces force viewers to confront the border between beauty and discomfort, putting in question both the meaning of his pieces and of art itself.

The combination of romanticism, pop culture, commercial objects, and surrealism creates a sense of visual tension in his paintings. This plethora of inspirations reflects Eder’s interest in contradiction, using familiar styles to evoke deeper reactions.

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Martin Eder (German, b. 1968)
PASSION, 2003
Oil on canvas
78 x 63 ½ inches

Abelardo Morell is a Cuban-born American photographer living in New York. He captures images in unique ways, including t...
08/11/2025

Abelardo Morell is a Cuban-born American photographer living in New York. He captures images in unique ways, including through the use of a camera obscura, light-sensitive paper, and etched glass photography to reproduce images.

Camera Obscura of Times Square in Hotel Room is part of a collection that seeks to portray Times Square in a refreshing way. This piece is particularly notable for the lack of light outside the window. As a result, it took Morell two days to complete–making it the longest exposure that he has ever produced.

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Abelardo Morell (American, b. 1948)
Camera Obscura of Times Square in Hotel Room, 1997
Gelatin silver print
Overall: 29 1/2 x 34 1/2in.
Artwork only: 20 x 24in.

Robert Moskowitz is an American artist associated with the New Image Painters, a group named after a 1978 exhibit at the...
08/06/2025

Robert Moskowitz is an American artist associated with the New Image Painters, a group named after a 1978 exhibit at the Whitney Museum that marked a return to a more figurative style of art. Using motifs of birds, people, and buildings–including the Flat Iron and Empire State buildings–he emphasizes form and silhouette in his pieces.

His use of negative space suspends the object within the image. By isolating everyday objects against monochromatic backgrounds, he transforms familiar forms into something more symbolic.

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Robert Moskowitz (American, 1935-2024)
UNTITLED, 1962
Aluminum paint and collage on canvas
54 x 40 inches

A long-time Chicago based artist, Margaret Wharton was known for her manipulation of chairs. By sawing them and putting ...
08/06/2025

A long-time Chicago based artist, Margaret Wharton was known for her manipulation of chairs. By sawing them and putting them back together–either in the general shape of a chair or masquerading them as something else–she was able to turn an everyday object into something thought provoking.

In Tall Story, Wharton elongates the familiar form of a chair, challenging viewers’ conceptions of utility and order within the home. Other similar pieces break apart and recombine chairs, or incorporate other found objects into them.

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Margaret Wharton (American, 1943-2014)
TALL STORY, 1979
Painted wood chairs, epoxy, glue, glass, and wood on concrete base
80 x 36 ¼ x 54 inches

Diane Arbus photographed her subjects in an intimate way while still preserving their personal space. Through her wide r...
07/30/2025

Diane Arbus photographed her subjects in an intimate way while still preserving their personal space. Through her wide range of subjects from different backgrounds, she made the seemingly strange appear normal and vice versa.

This photograph of Brenda Frazier depicts the former socialite sitting in bed smoking a cigarette. While her fame may have dissipated, she appears just as poised as she did at her 1938 Debutante Ball.

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Diane Arbus (American, 1923-1971)
Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, 1938 Debutante of the Year, 1966, printed later
Gelatin silver print
20 x 16 inches

Anselm Reyle is a contemporary German artist who lives and works in Berlin. Through his work, he examines the role of ab...
07/30/2025

Anselm Reyle is a contemporary German artist who lives and works in Berlin. Through his work, he examines the role of abstraction in contemporary art, using found materials and paint splashes to challenge existing conceptions of composition.

A staple of his art is its materiality, ranging from aluminum and mirrors to neon lights and blots of paint. Signatures of his style include folded pieces of foil, smudges of paint, and stripes cut at the bottom of the frame.

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Anselm Reyle (German b. 1970)
UNTITLED, 2022
Mixed media on burlap
66 7/8 x 57 1/8 x 3 1/8 inches

Bruce Conner is an American multi-media artist who helped to lead the postwar era of art. His works, which refuse to adh...
07/28/2025

Bruce Conner is an American multi-media artist who helped to lead the postwar era of art. His works, which refuse to adhere to a single medium, address postwar issues like rising consumerism and the fear of nuclear war.

Conner created paintings, sculptures, films, drawings, prints, collage, and photography. In the mid-1980s, following a diagnosis of a liver disorder, he transitioned to working primarily with paper, either engraving collages or creating pieces using ink blots.

Available from Alan Koppel Gallery. For inquiries, contact us via the link in bio.
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Bruce Conner (American, 1933-2008)
Untitled, 1993-1996, signed and dated ‘Bruce Conner 3/27/93’
Ink, glue and paper collage on paper and mat
21 x 13 ⅖ in.

Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer best known for her images depicting the Great Depression. Lange ...
07/28/2025

Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer best known for her images depicting the Great Depression. Lange didn’t categorize her photographs as art–instead, she used them as a means to spark social change.

The Road West shows a stretch of U.S. 54 in New Mexico, devoid of both people and cars. This was a common route taken by those traveling to California in search of economic opportunity during the Depression.

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Dorothea Lange (American, b. 1895-1965)
The Road West, New Mexico, 1938, printed 1950
Gelatin silver print
Artwork only: 11 x 14in.

Paul Pfeiffer is an American sculptor, photographer, and video artist known for his innovative use of digital media and ...
05/13/2025

Paul Pfeiffer is an American sculptor, photographer, and video artist known for his innovative use of digital media and manipulation of mass media images to explore the role of spectacle and spectatorship in shaping contemporary consciousness.

Born in Honolulu in 1966, Pfeiffer is particularly known for his video installations that digitally manipulate iconic images, often from sports events or Hollywood films, to reveal a hidden psychological cost of our culture's obsession with spectacle.

In RACE RIOT from 2001, the artist uses a familiar video clip of Michael Jordan writhing on the floor after a victory. But with the removal of the identifiers on the players jerseys, ambiguity ensues whether the physicality of the subject is a celebration or an assault.

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This powerful piece by Adam Pendleton combines silkscreen ink and spray paint on canvas to explore Pendleton’s concept o...
11/22/2024

This powerful piece by Adam Pendleton combines silkscreen ink and spray paint on canvas to explore Pendleton’s concept of Black Dada. Drawing from his manifesto, Pendleton reinterprets Tristan Tzara’s Dada declarations, repeating and overwriting the phrase “we are not” to challenge the logic of identity and collective subjectivity.

The text stutters across the canvas, blending abstraction with language, inviting viewers to reflect on the ways in which identities are formed, fragmented, and redefined.

Alan Koppel Gallery maintains an inventory of select secondary works by leading artists.

For inquiries on current inventory of works by Adam Pendleton and more, get in touch via the link in bio.
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Adam Pendleton
UNTITLED (Who We Are), 2019
Silkscreen ink and spray paint on canvas
96 x 69 inches

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