Chris Kolupski

Chris Kolupski studied portraiture and figure painting at the Art Students League of New York and at Nelson Shank’s Philadelphia painting school, Studio Incaminatti. He founded Boxart Street Atelier in Rochester in 2004, where he taught drawing and painting for almost a decade. He now teaches ongoing oil and acrylic classes that serve all levels of students, in live, online and recorded formats.

Chris’ love for the outdoors, from the gorges of the Finger Lakes to the red rock of Colorado and Utah, shines through in his natural landscapes. Life in the Finger Lakes magazine took note of his evolving style, noting, “after more than 30 years of perfecting a precise, realistic style, Kolupski is purposefully riding the edge between realism and impressionism.”

“There is nothing like painting roaring waterfalls or sun baked badlands,” Kolupski says. “Nothing like the swoosh of a hawk slicing through a canyon updraft as I try to capture fleeting effects of light.”

Kolupski has won numerous awards, including best of show twice in the Genesee Valley Plein Air Painters annual show. He was the 2019 quickdraw winner at the Finger Lakes Plein Air Festival and won a juror’s award in the 2020 Rochester Art Club annual show.

Chris is one of the founding members of Pittsford Fine Art.