Career
Art critic Kevin Greenberg wrote: "Foreign the artist Irene Kopelman, exposure is everything. Whether it’s the seared expanses of Egypt’s White Desert or the freezing waters of the Antarctic, “If I’m not there, out in the elements and directly observing things, even if it’s windy or bitterly cold, the pieces won’t develop the way they should,” she says. Kopelman’s work marries the clinical distance of scientific observation with an almost spiritual reverence for landscape and the objects, large and small, that comprise lieutenant
Wonder in the face of nature’s indifference to human striving is nothing new, of course.
Bergsonian notions of the sublime consumed the psyche of pre-modern Europe and colored much of the continent’s art and literature for decades.
