Multi-disciplined artist Kyle Krauskopf creates like others breathe.
Given to intensive year-long endeavors Krauskopf is currently embroiled in his most ambitious project yet: The Meantime Chronicles Volume 2- an original short story and illustration created each week of the year, prompted by a friend from somewhere around the globe. This project is the merging of his long refined illustrative skills, his recently found love of writing, and most importantly a collaboration between his friends and family from all over the country and world. This project is all to be capped off with a nationwide book tour of participants’ cities in 2025 via a handmade tear drop trailer! Volume 2 is the follow up to his first self-published book, The Meantime Chronicles, of the same format, save for the excellent element of including over fifty wonderful and unique voices in the process.
His enthusiastic drive has spawned many past projects including, but not limited to: Small Drawings High Hopes, 365 Days of Wood, and the ever-ongoing Gratefully in your Debt.
Blessed with a mind and hands always eager to help he has found himself a founding member of several galleries and art centers throughout the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest, integral to the re-opening of The Belltown Artwalk, and branding consultant with Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery. He’s also a carpenter, professional art installer, and currently learning more and more about the wine making process while working with Fortuity Cellars.
Finally, but perhaps most importantly, he is an oft collaborator with The National Alliance on Mental Illness. Krauskopf believes mental health is of the utmost importance to all of us and that if you can simply take a minute to listen, or to help someone out, we’d all be a little better off.
Sometimes he takes a “break” but it almost always involves brainstorming the next idea.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2023- The Meantime Chronicles, Nuwave Gallery, Ellensburg WA
2022- In The Meantime, Slip Gallery, Seattle WA
2021- Small Drawings High Hopes, The Native Nook, Rochester IN
2020- Small Drawings High Hopes in cooperation with NAMI Seattle, Seattle WA
2019- Food Art Collection “Illustrated Fare” Seattle, WA
2019- Connect Lounge “Krauskopf” Seattle, WA
2019- Parke Diem Seattle, WA
2018- Bemis Annual Art Show Seattle, WA
2018- Palomino “Follow the Emerald Star” Indianapolis, IN
2018- Brooke Westlund Gallery “VV” Seattle WA
2018- Lucky Envelope Brewing “Tiny VV” Seattle WA
2017- Verity Credit Union “Pop Portraits” Seattle WA
2017- Manu’s Bodega -a selection of works- Seattle WA
2016- Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery “365 Days of Wood” Seattle WA
2014- Murphy Arts Building “Buy or Burn” Indianapolis IN
2013- Pure Gallery “The End” Indianapolis IN
2012- The Dash In - a selection of works- Fort Wayne IN
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2022- Pollination Syndrome, Ghost Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022- Bloom, Get Nice Gallery, Seattle, WA
2019- The Getty Museum “Build a Beast” Los Angeles, CA
2019- Zhou B Gallery “Mad Scientists” Chicago, IL
2019- Ghost Gallery “Red List, Endangered Moths and Butterflies” Seattle, WA
2019- Fiesta de Frida “Women’s Justice League Benefit” Chicago IL
2018- Vie Magazine “Logan Lane Holiday Block Party” Grayton Beach, FL
2018- Ballard Seafood Festival Seattle WA
2018- Sunflower Project “Sunflower Project Fundraiser” Chicago IL
2017- “7th Annual Light, Space, & Time Animals Competition” lightspacetime.art
2017- Miami County Museum Annex “Miami County Artists” Peru IN
2016- Seattle Children’s Hospital Silent Auction Benefit Seattle, WA
2015- Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery “Ghouls” Seattle WA
2013- Indianapolis Arts Garden Collective Show “Love” Indianapolis IN
2012- Factory 17 “First Friday” Indianapolis IN
2012- Cinema Center “Braineaters’ Ball” Fort Wayne IN
2011- Fountain Square “Art Squared” Indianapolis IN
Selected Publications and Media:
“Heart on His Sleeve” Vie Magazine September 2018
“Creating Your Own Success in Art” IntervWednesday April 2018
Artist Portfolio Magazine Q2 Art Competition June 2017
“365 Days of Scroll Sawn Animals” Make Magazine. November 2015. makezine.com.
Education:
Yale University- The Science of Well Being, 2020
Ball State University- B.F.A., Studio Art-Emphasis in Drawing, 2009