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A graduate of Cooper Union and Columbia University in New York, New Jersey-based Konopka is known primarily as a Photo Realist. His works, based on compositional photographs, often include a muted palette and clean draftsmanship. His paintings have been described as being, “suffused in a milky light that could signal winter or summer, the way it bleaches colors. Looking as if the acrylic medium has been screened rather than painted, the canvases resemble large faded color photographs.”

In addition to his career in the fine arts, Konopka has been a set painter, or scenic artist, for NBC Television since the 1950s. His works are in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art.