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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 World
(From the (Co)Incidences Series, Glen Cove, NY 2012)
42" x 48"
oil on canvas



Flattened Framed
(Barrio Italia, Santiago de Chile 2017)
digital photo



Fly Pelican Fly
(Casa del Cerro, House on a Hill, Buchupureo, Chile 2014-2017)
wingspan 7'
recycled wood, lightbulb, chain



Beluga Whale
(Buchupureo, Chile 2017)
length 24"
recycled wood, latex 



Sunrise on Casa del Cerro/House on the Hill
(Buchupureo, Chile 2017)
digital photo



Remote Gods Rode the Heavens and Endured Forever While Men Died
(Buchupureo, Chile 2014)
42" x 48"
oil on canvas



Same Rabbit, Different Dog
(Las Termas, Chillan, Chile 2014-2016)
5" x 8"
watercolor/acrylic on paper

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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
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