BRIAN KAUPPI - ARTIST

A Thousand Different Versions Of Yourself (Del Ray, FL 2017) 42" x 42" oil on canvas Intuitively drawn to Nature and Art since early childhood, and inspired by deep space and the panoramic image, I was originally occupied with plein aire landscape painting, and have since focused on its cultural significance in attempt to produce a more timeless and universal expression. Once a symbol for individual freedom and even national conquest, the panoramic landscape as an image can now evoke a sense of either potential or impossible escape, an ethical or aesthetic ideal, or even nostalgia for a paradise lost. As an artist I am interested in enironments and their effect on perception, how an environment shapes its local civilization and vice versa; the timeless struggle between Man and Nature and how this struggle is reflected in the exchanges between the artist and his materials.  Artist Studio Buchupureo, Chile Despite Love Lost, Beauty Remains

There Is Still Peace To Be Found (Buchupureo, Chile 2017) 36" x 48" oil on canvas Happiness Is Contagious (Las Trancas, Chile 2006-2017) 24" x 30" oil on canvas It's Hard Work Staying Angry (Grand Canyon, AZ 2017)  36" x 54" oil on canvas Memorial to Forward Thinking, Clear Cut (San Diego, CA 2012 - Buchupureo, Chile 2013) 5" x 8" watercolor/acrylic on paper Situation Normal (San Diego, CA 2011) 5" x 8" watercolor/acrylic on paper Checkpoint Nation (White Sands, New Mexico 2012) 5" x 8" watercolor/acrylic on paper Territory (Grand Canyon, AZ 2011) 5" x 8" watercolor/acrylic on paper El Gringo Culiado (Rancho Santana, Nicaragua 2016) 9" x 12" watercolor on paper U NO BEST (CO)INCIDENCE (San Diego, CA 2011) 48" x 60" oil on canvas Intensely Human Yet Majestic In Its Scale

(How Many More) Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity, and Cowardice (Fort Union Ranch, New Mexico 2017) 24" x 36" oil on canvas Portrait of the Artist Horseback (Fort Union Ranch, New Mexico 2017) digital photo THE SECOND WORLD COMING Mimicking the antique aesthetic of junk stores, where one might meet an elder with stories from the primitive world, fastened tight to the seat of Western cinema, whichever year from the 50’s to yesterday’s Tarrantino, Cowboy hats, and fringe, tattoos, fashion of the Campo, Idols and Icons, imperfect, bigger than reality but always insisting Autobiography, part of local legend, these subjects are painted and unpainted with a sense of careful balance, bordering on shameful selectivity, within the sublime settings they are born in, sometimes left as nothing more than scars, distant memories rather to be forgotten, rendering the message unintelligible, open to revisionist historians, casual appreciators, venom

Picnic For Disaster, Displaced History, San Francisco Fire (Buchupureo, Chile 2013) 9" x 12" watercolor/acrylic on paper Simplified Landscape,   Infiernillo (Pichilemu, Chile 2008) 9" x 12" watercolor/acrylic on paper Western Spaghetti (Grand Canyon, AZ 2008-2014) 5" x 8" watercolor/acrylic on paper Heather's 40th Birthday (Bethany Beach, DE 2014) 5" x 8" watercolor on paper The Marriage of the Infinite and the Restricted, Figure as Landscape (Buchupureo, Chile 2015) 5" x 8" watercolor/acrylic on paper Love is a Limp and a Crutch, Ghost Story, Hemmingway, FWTBT (Buchupureo, Chile 2014-2016) 24" x 30" oil on canvas Love is a Limp and a Crutch (La Jolla, CA - Buchupureo, Chile 2012-2014) 7" x 10" watercolor/acrylic on paper Enough Kernels to Feed the Entire Population of an Intellectually Ravenous

Beluga Whale (Edina, MN -Buchupureo, Chile 2017) length 2' recycled wood, white latex In Every Corner of the World, On Every Subject Under the Sun (Glen Cove, NY 2012- Buchupureo, Chile 2016) 18" x 24" watercolor/acrylic on paper Don't Quit Your Day Dream (Las Termas Chillan, Chile 2017) 7"x10" watercolor on paper When Love Turns to Fear (El Ultimo Pescador Sobreviviente, 2015) 60" x 72" oil on canvas Before the War, Carl Jung as a Youth (Pichilemu, Chile 2014) 5" x 8" watercolor/acrylic on paper Welcome  (Pichilemu-Buchupureo, 2014) 35 x 45 cm oil on canvas

Brian David Kauppi briankauppi@yahoo.com +56 (9) 8564 3912 Lives and works in Buchupureo, Chile.  Studied art at the University of Virginia, 1995-1999, graduated with honors, awarded three art fellowships, including the Aunspaugh Fellowship in 2000.  Has since exhibited in New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Philadelphia, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, California, Oregon and since 2005, in Chile.   In the Blue Ridge Mountains outside of Charlottesville, VA, Kauppi found his original inspiration painting the landscape. In 2001, Kauppi travelled through Europe studying the Masters, with a residency on Paros, Greece and later settling in Naples, Italy for six months, where he began to explore abstract color fields inspired by the multi-layered, aging facades of the Italian architecture.  Returning to the United States in 2002, Kauppi lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY as a full-time artist, alternating between landscapes and abstraction.  Periodically taking painting sabbatica