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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
(Buchupureo, Chile 2013-2017)
36" x 42"
oil on canvas



Offering the Unknown With None of the Physical, Mental or Emotional Hazards of Physical Exploration (Del Ray, FL 2017)
18" x 24"
oil on canvas



The Why and Wherefore
(Buchupureo, Chile 2017)
18" x 24"
oil on canvas



Tragic But Ultimately Stirring In Its Insistence On Human Dignity 
(Fort Union Ranch, New Mexico 2017)
24" x 36"
oil on canvas


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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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