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 t...