Ira Korman

Affliction, 2009, charcoal on paper, 20 1/2" x 17 3/4" fr.

Affliction, 2009, charcoal on paper, 20 1/2" x 17 3/4" fr.

Available Works
Old Mary, 2008, charcoal on paper, 22 1/4" x 18 3/4" fr. Scar, 2008, charcoal on paper, 26" x 22" fr. Solitary Man, 2008, charcoal on paper, 24 1/2" x 18 1/2" fr Wintercoat, 2009, charcoal on paper, 20" x 18" fr. "Ivy From Our Mother's Garden", 1995, charcoal on paper, 35 1/2" x 34" fr. "Serpent", 2004, charcoal on paper, 41" x 32" fr. "Sun Valley", 2005, charcoal on paper, 40 1/2" x 31" fr. "Abdi's Missing Button", 1994, charcoal on paper, 40" x 34" fr. "Lucky Seven", 2009, charcoal on paper, 19" x 13" fr. “Work in Progress (Self Portrait)”,2001,charcoal on paper,22” x 27” fr.
About: Ira Korman
Ira Korman

BORN: November 22, 1962 New York, NY

EDUCATION:
1984 B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1985-1987 Apprenticeship with painter/sculptor Bernar Venet

www.irakorman.com

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2009 “Passing Shadows: Recent Drawings”, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA
2009 “Two-Person Show” Jewish Federation, Los Angeles, CA
2003 “Drawings”, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000 "New Drawings," Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 "Recent Drawings," Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996 “Strangers Like Me," Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 "Recent Drawings," Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993 Galerie Bartsch & Chariau, Munich, Germany
1988 Marylou's, New York, NY
1987 Galerie Thomas Flora, Innsbruck, Austria
1986 Galerie Bartsch & Chariau, Munich, Germany
1984 Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2009 “Sweet Subversives: Contemporary Caliufornia Drawings” Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2009 “West Coast Drawing: Drawings VIII at Koplin Del Rio Gallery” Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009 “Memory of the L.A Billboard: Telepolis in the Archetype” Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA
2009 “Draw the Line” Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2008 “Not Without Form”, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada Las Vegas, NV
2008 “The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection”, de Young Museum, California Palace Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
“Ag2S: Koplin Del Rio’s 25th Anniversary Exhibition”, Koplin Del Rio, Culver City, CA
2004 “Drawings VII”, Koplin Del Rio, West Hollywood, CA
2003 “Just Charcoal”, Golden West Fine Arts Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA
2002 "Drawings VI", Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 "Skin Deep," Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
"Representing LA: Pictorial Currents in Southern California Art, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
“Drawings V,” Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Art 2000: Applauding Revolutionary Talent,” Millard Sheets Gallery, LA County Fair, Pomona, CA
"The New Classicists," Da Vinci Art Gallery, Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA
1999 "Liberation: A Celebration of the Nude", van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
"Portraiture: Front, Back and In-Between", Armory Center For The Arts, Pasadena, CA
1998 "Realism Knows No Bounds", Fifth Annual Realism Invitational, van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
"Drawings IV", Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Human Conditions, The Figure", Cerritos College Fine Arts Gallery, Norwalk, CA
1997 “Reconfigured: II Drawing”, Santa Monica College Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Drawing From Life”, Tatistcheff & Company, New York, NY
1996 “Realism ‘96”, van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
"Drawing Conclusions," Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
“Other Faces”, Junior Arts Center, Barnsdall Art Park, LA, CA
“Drawn from L.A.”, The Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
"National Drawing Invitational Exhibition", The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1993 "Drawings III", Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 "INX Firing Lines--Political Illustration, 1980-1992", National Touring Exhibition
1990 "First Annual Art Exhibit", H.G. Daniels juried exhibition, North Hollywood, CA
1984 "RSVP,” exhibition, Warner Communications Gallery, New York, NY

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2007 Wolfe, Townsend, “Visions: Selections from the James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawing”
2003 Gangelhoff, Bonnie, " The Art of Drawing: Six artists demonstrate a timeless art form",
Southwest Art Magazine, Feb.
2002 Josslin, Victoria, "Intimate Encounters: Contemporary Figure Drawing", Summer
1999 Gilbert, Rick, “Portraits Posing for a Close-up,” Pasadena Weekly, May 21
Junker, Howard, Zyzzyva, Summer, illus.
Wilson, William, “L.A. Gives Draftsmanship Its Due,” LA Times, May 15
"National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Arts Center," Little Rock, AR (Catalog, illus.)
1993 “Kunstaktuell,” “Art News," AZ Feuilleton, Jan. 21
“Die Eigenaritgen Gross Formate des Ira M. Korman,” (The Singular Great Distinction of Ira M.
Korman,) Die Welt, Feb. 6
“Ira M. Korman bei Bartsch & Chariau”, “Ira M. Korman at Bartsch & Chariau", Feine Adressen
M¸nchen, Feb.
“Kino-Wirklichkeit Spazlergangdurch M¸nchner Galerien”, (Film and Reality: Strolling through Munich’s Galleries,) M¸nchner Merkur, Jan. 29
“American Pictures”, Munich Found, March, p. 30, vol. 5, #2
1986 “Ira M. Korman stellt bei Bartsch & Chariau aus”, (Ira M. Korman Exhibits at Bartsch & Chariau),
S¸ddeutsche Zeitung, Nov. 20

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK

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