EL TRENTI Y UNO DE DECIEMBRE, VENITE-ONCE
My last painting of 2011 (2012 defeating 2011) - started this morning and almost finished bar some text on the shield and title, date etc. Oil on tin, 14" x 11", based on San Miguel figure represented in Spanish Colonial painting.

JUEVES, EL VIENTINUEVE DE DECIEMBRE, VEINTE-ONCE
Half a year's worth of swarf:

EL VEINTICUATRO DE DECIEMBRE, VEINTE-ONCE
Feliz Navidad!

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I'm stealing these pics straight from Jo's art blog (as I'm in one of them) on the Miami Art Fairs. We've been away for two weeks in Miami, and then onto Texas (Houston, Austin and Fort Worth) to check out galleries and specific exhibitions, such as the Caravaggio exhib at the Kimbell in Fort Worth.

MARTES, EL VEINTINUEVE DE NOVIEMBRE, VEINTE-ONCE
page four of the new Mark Hutchins Gallery Catalogue with my painting, 'Trickle-Down Theory' and text by Las Vegas writer, Scott Dickensheets. You'll be able to download the entire pdf catalogue at the gallery website here at some point in the not too distant future.

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back to work (photo by JK Russ):

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Three of the five paintings available at SmallWorks Gallery in Brisbane, Australia. You can view the other two on my artist Facebook page here.

Left to right: 'Beginning', 'Dos' and 'Trinity', all 2011, oil on metal, 10 3/4" x 8", 270mm x 200mm.

MIERCOLES, EL VEINTITRES DE NOVIEMBRE, VEINTE-ONCE
SmallWorks Gallery is opening this Friday in Brisbane, Australia.

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Please click here to read the email update below

MIERCOLES, EL NUEVE DE NOVIEMBRE, VEINTE-ONCE
John Seed of The Huffington Post has published an article on my paintings, practice and context:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-seed/matt-couper-painter_b_1080307.html

MARTES, EL UNO DE NOVEMBRE, VEINTE-ONCE
My painting, 'Syncretism Of The Halves' (2010, oil on loose canvas, 74" x 65") will be exhibited in 'Life In Death' at the Winchester Cultural Center, Las Vegas. The exhibition opens on 29 October and runs through 12 November 2011. Trifecta Gallery director Marty Walsh will announce the Best of Show Award in the gallery at 6 p.m. Tuesday, 1st November.
Current Exhibitions:
2nd Annual Santa Muerte Music & Arts Festival, Sacred Machine,
Tucson, AZ, USA, 28 Oct - 31 Dec 2011
Dia de los Muertos, El Museo Cultural De Santa Fe,
555 Camino de la Familia, Santa Fe, NM, USA 28 Oct - 2 Nov 2011
Life in Death, Winchester Cultural Center,
3130 McLeod Drive, Las Vegas, NV, USA 29 October - 12 November 2011
Rua (group exhibiton), HuiHui,
50a Ossian St, Napier, New Zealand 28 October - 9 December 2011
Upcoming Exhibitions:
Celebrating Existence: A Show of Atheism, Blackbird Studios,
1551 S Commerce St, Las Vegas, NV, USA 3 - 26 November 2011
Inaugural Exhibition, Hands On Art Gallery,
8530 West Sunset Rd., Suite 345, Las Vegas, NV, USA 11 Nov 2011 - 29 Jan 2012
Look, See Group Show, SmallWorks Gallery,
87 Bromley Street, Brisbane, Australia, 25 November 2011 - 22 January 2012
[Group exhibition], Light and Space Contemporary,
53 Fairlane St. West Fairview, 1118 Quezon City, Philippines, January 2012
Exhibition, Philomena Gabriel Contemporary,
3227 1/2 Milam Street, Houston, TX, USA, 18 May - 16 June 2012

LUNES, EL VEINTICUATRO DE OCTUBRE, VEINTE-ONCE
Hello All,
With the upcoming Dia De Los Muertos festivals here in the USA, I have work in several exhibitions around the country.
At present, I have two paintings in a group exhibition, '10,000 Skeletons' at 222 Imperial, a new art gallery in Las Vegas. My work can be seen on their Facebook Page. (until 31 October 2011)
Upcoming exhibitions with a Dia De Los Muertos theme are:
'Dia de los Muertos', El Museo Cultural De Santa Fe, 555 Camino de la Familia, Santa Fe, NM, USA 28 Oct - 2 Nov 2011
'2nd Annual Santa Muerte Music & Arts Festival', Sacred Machine, Tucson, AZ, USA, 28 Oct - 31 Dec 2011
'Life in Death', Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 McLeod Drive, Las Vegas, NV, USA 29 October - 12 November 2011
Other upcoming group exhibitions include:
HuiHui, a one-night-only group exhibition, 50a Ossian St, Napier, New Zealand 28 Oct 2011
Celebrating Existence, Blackbird Studios, 1551 S Commerce St, Las Vegas, NV, USA 3 - 26 November 2011
If you'd like any higher resolution image of the paintings in the upcoming exhibition, please let me know.

DOMINGO, EL VEINTITRES DE OCUTBRE, VEINTE-ONCE
Matthew Couper
'The History of the Blue Lady'
2011
acrylic and oil on loose canvas
©2011 Couper Russ Studios LLC
222 Imperial:
http://www.facebook.com/222imperial

SABATO, EL VIENTIDOS DE OCTUBRE, VEINTE-ONCE
10,000 Skeletons at 222 Imperial (http://www.facebook.com/222imperial), below are my two paintings in the exhibition

VIERNES, EL VIENTIUNO DE OCTUBRE, VEINTE-ONCE
invitation to 'Santa Muerte Festival' 2011 at Sacred Machine (http://www.sacredmachine.com) where I have three small paintings on display. I'll post them once the exhibition has begun.

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Dick Frizzell's new book 'It's All About The Image' with my work, 'Half and Half'', 2010, oil on canvas.
Thanks to Matt S. for the pics!

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in New Zealand:

http://www.huihui.co.nz

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My intaglio scraperboard work 'Origins' is on display at the 'Real New Zealand Art' exhibition, Federal Hotel Gallery, Cnr Taupo Quay and Market Streets, Whanganui, New Zealand 27 Sept -8 Oct 2011. I believe the exhibition is part of promotion for the RWC and is a selection of alumni from the Quay School for the Arts.

'Origins', 2011, incisions in ink on metal, framed, 220mm x 170mm / 8 3/4in x 6 3/4in

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My painting installation 'Step, Stack, Stretch' in the Wallace Art Awards in Auckland, New Zealand. Exhibition closing 16th of October, 2011.

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four years apart, first in 2004 with my friend Matt, then in 2008 with Jo. In the Brancacci Chapel of the basilica of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, Masaccio and Masolino's fresco cycle of the life of St Peter, executed in the 1420s.

LUNES, EL DOCE DE SEPTIEMBRE, VEINTE-ONCE
uncanny: de Chirico on the left - 'Metaphysical Interior', 1916 and Guston's 'Rain', 1975. The de Chirico is a hard image to track down, I've only ever seen black and white repros of it in two books, one of them being James Thrall-Soby's 'The Early Chirico' which, according to Guston's daughter, Musa Mayer in her biography 'Night Studio' was "...a book always at hand on my father's shelf...".

SABATO, EL DIEZ DE SEPTIEMBRE, VEINTI-ONCE
studio show on Thursday: