Felix Gephart

Felix Gephart’s drawings overwhelm the viewer, and not just because of their sheer size. His gloomy, tragicomic pictures are shocking and fascinating at the same time.
Gephart, one of Germany's youngest graffiti artists in the 1980s, studied in Münster, in Dortmund and later, thanks to a Fulbright scholarship, at the New York School of Visual Arts as well.
Felix Gephart is hard to categorize: he is a figurative artist, draughtsman, satirical illustrator, painter and graffiti writer all in one. The whole range of his work includes seemingly literary and old master-like drawings that stand face to face with murals, landscape representations, portraits and surrealist mythological creatures. Large-sized illustrations and numerous detail photographs offer an insight into the powerful, thematically, stylistically and technically diversified oeuvre.

education:
graphic design diploma, School of Applied Sciences, (Dortmund)
Master of Fine Arts, Illustration as Visual Essay, School of Visual Arts, (New York)

Felix Gephart is a Berlin based figurative artist.

exhibits include:
Frankfurt Book Fair, with Kettler publishing house, 2013
Urban Spree Gallery, (Berlin), solo show, 2013
Kunstverein Bochumer Kulturrat, „Brought into line“, solo show, 2013
A-Muse show (Berlin), 2013
Z Papers, Gallery Z, (Stuttgart), 2013
Conturbanaries art fair, with Gallery Box 32, (Berlin), 2013
Kunstraum H&H (Cologne), solo show „Johnny got his gun“, 2012
Kunstraum H&H (Cologne), solo show „Satiric drawings, 2010
various group group shows at Kunstraum H&H since 2010
Stroke Art Fair, (Berlin and Munich), represented by Box 32 (Berlin), 2010 and 2011
Bloom Art fair, (Cologne) represented by Box 32 (Berlin), 2010 and 2011
Neonchocolate Gallery, (Berlin), "So und nicht anders", 2 man show with Matthias Gephart, 2011
A. Paul Weber Museum, (Ratzeburg) "Skurrile Zeichnungen", solo show, 2009
Box 32 (Berlin), Far from Utopia, solo show, 2009, various group shows since 2009
Visual Arts Gallery, New York, "Urban Rituals", 2008, curated group show
Westside Gallery, New York, "Plane Sight", 2007, curated group show
Design Forum of the Museum Ludwig (Cologne), 2003