September Issue 2001
Bob Jones University Features Exhibit of Works by Emery Bopp
Editor's Note: This article came too late for our last issue, but we think it deserves to be seen, although the exhibition has finished.
The works of professor and artist for over 50 years will be recognized at Bob Jones University. Emery Bopp, professor at the University for 50 years, will display a retrospective of his work in the Sargent Art Building on the campus of Bob Jones University, in Greenville, SC, from Aug. 19-31, 2001. The exhibition will be in honor of his years of service and retirement.
Bopp received his education at the Pratt Institute, Yale University, Rochester Institute of Technology and the New York Institute of Fine Arts. At Yale he studied under Josef Albers, Willem de Kooning, Alvin Eisenman and Alvin Lustig.
Bopp has served on the Art Faculty of Bob Jones University since 1951 and is currently Chairman Emeritus of the Division of Art, which he chaired from 1953-92. During this time he has also been a prolific artist working with oils, sculpture and mixed media.
Bopp's works have been exhibited in galleries across the south including the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL and the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC.
Awards garnered by his work include Award of Merit - Southeastern Annual, High Museum, Atlanta, GA, and the Museum Purchase Award-Guild of South Carolina Artists by the Greenville County Museum of Art, in Greenville, SC.
His works may also be viewed in the permanent collections of the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, the South Carolina Arts Commission in Columbia, the Greenville County Museum of Art and Erskine College. Representatives of his work have also been published in the "Contemporary Artists of South Carolina" and the prize-winning book, Paintings Book VI.
Listed in Personalities of the South as well as several Who's Who listings, Bopp also is listed fondly among those faculty who have served so many years to create a Fine Arts program at Bob Jones University that is second to none in the state of South Carolina. His influence went beyond the molding of clay to helping mold the character of the students he taught.
For further information call the BJU gallery at 864/242-5100.
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