Joel Popadics

Biography

Joel Popadics is considered to be one of the nation’s top landscape artists. He is primarily noted for his traditional style of watercolor painting. He holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from the School of Visual Arts, New York City and has studied painting with John Phillip Osborne and Arthur F. Maynard at the Ridgewood Art Institute.

Popadics has had numerous one-man shows, including an exhibition at the Bergen Museum of Art and Science in Paramus, NJ. His work has appeared in juried exhibitions at the National Academy, American Watercolor Society, and Salmagundi Club in New York City and other prominent organizations across the country. Among his many honors are five Best-in-Show awards and over 20 major national awards including The Florence Lonsford Award for a Traditional or Impressionistic Landscape from the Salmagundi Club, The Grumbacher Gold Medal from the California Watercolor Association and The Silver Medal of Honor from the New Jersey Watercolor Society. He is an elected member of five art organizations.

He has been featured numerous times in AMERICAN ARTIST, THE ARTIST’S MAGAZINE, 201 THE BEST OF BERGEN and RIDGEWOOD MAGAZINES.

Mr. Popadics is a Past-President of the New Jersey Watercolor Society and continues to serve on its executive board. He is a trustee and education director of the Ridgewood Art Institute.

He conducts several very popular classes for adults and children at the Ridgewood Art Institute and is on faculty with the Ridgewood Community Schools program.

Joel Popadics resides in Wayne, NJ with his wife, Patricia and their two children.

Bibliography

Feature Article, "Making a Warming Palette to Paint Watercolors in the Winter" by Joel Popadics, American Artist Magazine, February 2009
Feature Article, "Art in the Everyday" by Debra Anderson, Ridgewood Magazine, December 2005
Feature Article, "Splashes of Color, The Spontaneous Splendor of Watercolor Painting" by Louise Hafesh, (201) Magazine, July 2005
Feature Article, "A Prismatic Palette" by M. Stephen Doherty, American Artist Magazine, July 2004
Feature Article, "Mood Lighting" The Artist's Magazine, June 2004
Feature Article, "Summer, the Season of Light" by Joel Popadics, The Artist's Magazine, March 2003
Feature Article, "In Search of the Perfect Scene" by Joel Popadics, The Artist's Magazine, June 2000
Feature Article, "Getting the Greens Right" by Joel Popadics, The Artist's Magazine, July 1998

Contact Information & Website

To view Joel Popadics' artwork online visit:
http://www.artistcolony.com/artisthomepage.cfm?AcctNumber=60

For more information about his classes at the Ridgewood Art Institute in Ridgewood, NJ visit his instructor's page at:
http://www.ridgewoodartinstitute.org/instructors/popadics.html

Contact Information:
Joel Popadics
83 Clifford Drive
Wayne,, NJ 07470

Phone: (973) 706-7759

E-mail: JPopadics@aol.com

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