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Brian David Kauppi
+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 sabbaticals abroad, Kauppi first visited Chile in 2003, where he met his wife and has since split his time between Chile and the U.S.

Exhibitions:

Galeria de Arte de Fondo y Forma, Santiago, Chile 2017
LAINE LA, Hollywood, CA 2017
Field Trip, Portland, OR 2016
Janette Osses Galeria de Arte, Concepcion, Chile 2014-2016
Abigail Fox Designs, Old Greenwich, CT 2011-2014
Alcala Gallery, San Diego, CA 2010
Bipolart, Shadow Space, Philadelphia, PA 2009
Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, CA 2009
Many Hands Gallery, Capitola, CA 2009
Nelson Macker Gallery, Portchester, NY 2008
Galerie Plein Aire, Carmel, CA 2008
Action Art Gallery, Old Greenwich, CT 2008
Bipolart, Fountain Art Fair, Miami, FL 2008
Galerie Matthei, Santiago, Chile 2007
JHH Fine Art, Greenwich, CT 2007
The South Street Gallery, Greenport, NY 2007
One-Way Gallery, Narragansett, RI 2007
Opus 22, New York, NY 2006
Galerie La Ventana, Santiago, Chile 2005
Amanda Brennan, Glen Cove, NY 2005
Old Greenwich Art Society, Old Greenwich, CT 2005
Tiffany Allen Fine Art Portchester, NY 2005
Heather MacAulay, Arlington, VA 2004
Designers and Agents, New York, NY 2003
Green Gallery, New York, NY 2002
Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT 2002
Fayerweather Gallery, Charlottesville, VA 2000




Kings, Gods, and Heroes
(San Diego, CA 2011)
48" x 60"
oil on canvas



Intensely Human Yet Majestic In Its Scale
(Grand Canyon, AZ 2010)
30" x 48"
oil on canvas



Amor, Familia, Fe
(Barrio Italia, Santiago de Chile 2017)
digital photo



Auto-Tonic Reverberation
(DUMBO Brooklyn, NY 2001)
24" x 36"
oil on canvas



Elementary Particles
(San Deigo, CA 2012)
18" x 24"
watercolor/acrylic on paper (four parts)



A More Efficient Waste of Time
(Del Rey, FL 2017)
24" x 36"
oil on canvas



The Errant Stupidity of Looking for Simplicity in So-Called Simple Cultures
(Pullay, Chile 2017)
9" x 12"
watercolor on paper





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