Bleeding Heart Landscapes
"You're a Natural Disaster, You're Just What I'm After"
2.5' x 2.5' Acrylic on canvas

Perspectives on Locality:

A postcard is sent between friends who have been pinpointed at opposite ends of a major storm cloud formation crossing the east coast, stretching from New York to Washington DC, thus mapping the geographic locality of a moment in time on paper, without necessarily drawing a traditional map with the lines of the New Jersey Turnpike, I-95, Philadelphia, the coastline, rivers, the Delaware Bridge, the Chesapeake Bay...

Ocean debris is transported by well documented water currents spanning thousands of miles of Atlantic coastline, floating individually at various depths from the outset, congregating eventually at the breakwater's edge for whatever reason and beached amongst a scattered community of geologic diversity, displayed on the golden white surface of perfectly smoothed sand in the form of an arching swash mark, left by the last receding line of foam from the furthest reaching wave in a periodic high tide, marked clearly on a time/depth chart, the hours written daily on a chalk board and posted for whom it may concern. The bits of plastic, chunks of foam, synthetic debris of unknown origin, their bright colors mixed with bits of seaweed and shellfish, smooth stones and pebbles, white and brown, their earth tones splayed across pristine sand seeming to illustrate visually the essence of controlled arbitrariness otherwise known as coincidence or fate.

A second-hand thrift store becomes a period room localizing the fashions of a certain nostalgic narrative. A white elephant sale placed arbitrarily in the garage space between two seven-story apartment buildings, home to hundreds, if not thousands of occupants, total strangers, who nevertheless share a time/space locality of life experience connected to the cast off objects making up a momentary weekend installation of their life's detritus. Life is reordering a flashback in narrative form. Timeless narratives reoccur consistently based on the localities of a particular passing observation. What we observe is tangential to any number of internal and external dialogues and does not entirely have to do with our eyes. Many things can be recorded through our vision while we are not observing the physical world at all. These are instances where the glitch in the visual world can allow us to observe the infinite flatness of our mind's eye; infinite in imagination and resource, flat in every capacity to render narrative connections three dimensionally.

Much like the everyday chance relics described above, these paintings depict the elements of time and space in the natural world, both subjectively and objectively. They are landscape paintings, they represent natural light and utilize optical illusions in order to represent a pictorial view of deep space, offering the viewer a potential narrative, imaginative or nostalgic escape, yet one is confronted by a resolutely expressionist process, the paintings thereby reflect their making, their materials, their origin and their present place. Worked on the floor, entirely by veils of dripped and poured paint on canvas, Kauppi takes the humble tools and expressive techniques of Pollock, Louis, and Frankenthaler and through a combined sensitivity to control and chance, oversees the birth of these narrative settings. Inspired by the sublime in life and its manifestation in the history of painting, Brian David Kauppi intends to capture the feeling of transcendence in one’s meditation on natural beauty, its inherent transience, and its correlation to the creative process.

Bleeding Heart Landscapes
"Yellowstone"
4' x 4' Acrylic/Magic Marker on canvas

Bleeding Heart Landscapes
"I Went Ice Fishing Once..."
2.5' x 3' Acrylic/Magic Marker on canvas

Bleeding Heart Landscapes
"Belly Button Window"
2.5' x 3' Acrylic/Magic Marker on canvas

Bleeding Heart Landscape
Silhouette series
"Wetlands I"
3' x 4.5' Acrylic/Oil on canvas

Bleeding Heart Landscapes
Silhouette series
"Wetlands II"
3' x 4.5' Acrylic/Oil/Glitter/Magic Marker on canvas

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Bleeding Heart Landscapes
Silhouette series
"Wetlands III"
3' x 4.5' Acrylic/Oil/Glitter on canvas

Bleeding Heart Landscapes
Aerial Perspective Series
"Classified New Mexican Moment"
2.5' x 3' Acrylic on canvas

Bleeding Heart Landscapes
Aerial Perspective series
"Smog Free Sunday"
3' x 4' Acrylic on canvas

Bleeding Heart Landscapes
Aerial Perspectives series
"On Top of the Bottom of the World"
4.5' x 3' Acrylic on canvas

Bleeding Heart Landscapes
Aerial Perspectives series
"I Wanna Live in Jamaica, Blah, Blah, Blah..."
3' x 3.5', Acrylic on canvas

Bleeding Heart Landscapes
Silhouette series
"Saint Something... Coastal Mountains" (Detail)
2.5' x 4' Acrylic/Oil on canvas

BRIAN KAUPPI
briankauppi@yahoo.com
Juana de Arco, 2080, Depto. #43
Providencia, Santiago
Chile

EDUCATION:
University of Virginia, USA. BA Graduate with Honors, Bachelor de Arte con Honor, 1999.
Aunspaugh fellowship, Otorgamiento de quinto ano, 2000.
Travel Study Fellowship, Otorgamiento de Estudias y Viaje, "Poetry in Painting," Dean Schantz fellowship, 1998.
Travel Study Fellowship, Otorgamiento de Estudias y Viaje, "Primitivism," Dean Fallon fellowship, 1997.

EXHIBITIONS:
Salon Anual, Grupo Tanagra, Chillan, Chile, 2006. Premio de Honor. Award of Honor.
"Paisajes del Campo," Cristina Gonzalez, Chillan, Chile, 2006.
"Bleeding Heart Landscapes," Opus 22, New York, NY, 2006.
"Urban Nature Landscapes," Amanda Brennan, Glen Cove, NY, 2005.
Old Greenwich Art Society, Group Exhibition, Old Greenwich, CT, 2005.
Tiffany Allen Fine Art, Group Exhibition, Port Chester, NY, 2005.
Galeria La Ventana, Feria del Verano, Bella Vista, Santiago, Chile, 2005.
"Exoticalandia," Heather MacAulay, Kensington, MD, 2004.
Old Greenwich Art Society, Group Exhibition, Old Greenwich, CT, 2004.
"Abstract Painters, Brooklyn," Designers and Agents, New York, NY, 2003.
Green Gallery, Fall Group Exhibition, New York, NY, 2003.
Old Greenwich Art Society, Group Exhibition, Old Greenwich, CT, 2003
Green Gallery, Spring Group Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY, 2003.
"Outdoor Exhibition," Heather MacAulay, Kensington, MD, 2003.
Greenwich Art Society Group Show, Diane White Gallery, Greenwich, CT, 2002.
"Urban/Suburban Landscapes," Arcadia Coffee, Old Greenwich, CT, 2002
"East Island Landscapes," Jim O'Grady, Glen Cove, NY, 2002
"Great American Landscapes," Star Hill, Charlottesville, VA, 2000.
"Auto Tonic Reverberations," Fayerweather Gallery, Charlottesville, VA, 2000.
"Primitive Painting," Fayerweather gallery, Charlottesville, VA, 1997.

Bleeding Heart Landscapes
"Falling Up"
2' x 3', acrylic on canvas