DENISE H. COOPERMAN: Solo exhibition

Denise H. Cooperman is an artist and Interior Designer who has been creating art in various mediums for over 30 years.  Cooperman won multiple awards as a teenager and has had works shown in galleries in her hometown of Beverly Hills. Cooperman has exhibited in numerous galleries from Aspen to NYC, NJ, Philadelphia, and Art Aqua Miami.  She studied at UCLA, the University of Colorado, Jim Repenning Fine Arts, and Studio Incamminati.

Cooperman said she was lucky to find my calling early in life.  Surrounded by a vibrant art culture in Beverly Hills, California, she developed a deep and compelling love of the arts.  As early as Junior High, she had already an award-winning artist.  In High School, Cooperman was one of thirty children selected from the Los Angeles area to study at UCLA as part of a special painting class.  Art became more than just a hobby.  By her junior year, Cooperman was manufacturing and selling handbags and jewelry that she had designed.

After High School, Cooperman pursued fine arts at the University of Colorado at Boulder.  Before relocating back to California, she apprenticed jewelry-making in Denver.  During this experience, she combined my love of painting, jewelry, and “bling” and opened up a salon in La Jolla, California where she created “nail-art".  This “ingenious” new art form was featured on a local talk show and was written up by Frank Rhodes for the San Diego Union newspaper in 1977.  Cooperman’s journey led her to become an Interior Designer in Philadelphia, during which she spent more than four decades in the furniture industry designing, creating, and furnishing people’s lives with joy, art, and functionality.

Cooperman’s newest collection of Abstract Expressionist paintings speak from her soul like no other works.  The iHeart series began during the Pandemic while isolated in quarantine.  After 15 years of painting realism, Cooperman found great pleasure in reaching back to her early years when she created only abstracts. Cooperman is exploring new concepts with the inclusion of hearts to resemble a piece of her heart to the canvas sharing her love of painting and making art.

Cooperman’s Judaica paintings are inspired by her son, Perry Reuven who has become observant.  His beautiful and complicated religious world has influenced her to begin this series. Cooperman am moved by the "Black Hats" of his community and the emotions that she feel while painting can clearly be seen in the finished work.  Proceeds from each religious painting or commissioned works are donated to the Lubavitch Chabad.     

Nom d'Artiste D. Harrison

Under her nom d’artiste, D. Harrison Cooperman has been signing her paintings because she chose to use her maiden name.  Her name Denise H Cooperman is from her first marriage and she has kept it so that she can share the same surname as her two sons and grandchildren. Cooperman’s middle initial H stands for  Harrison. Her current last name, Brachman is primarily used socially. She has one sister Meichelle and part of her uses Harrison to keep their name alive. All the Harrison’s in her family have passed.  This is a way for them to live on.  

Currently Cooperman live in Cherry Hill, NJ with her husband, Michael Brachman, who is a science fiction writer and author of the Rome's Revolution series. She has two beautiful boys who are her pride and joy.  Both of her boys are married and she is blessed with five grandchildren, Meir, Aryeh, Sydney, Levi and Rivka.