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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

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10,000 Skeletons at 222 Imperial (http://www.facebook.com/222imperial), below are my two paintings in the exhibition

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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.

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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...".

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studio show on Thursday:

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One more day before Andrew Graham Dixon's new book on Caravaggio is released in the USA:
http://www.andrewgrahamdixon.com/book/readBook/14

A Short doco, updated from his original one a few years back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v_FAijXpDc

reviews on the book:
http://www.3pipe.net/2010/09/interview-andrew-graham-dixon-on.html

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(from left to right) 'Multi-tasking', 'Financial Bloodlines' and 'Capitol Notions'
all 2011
all oil on metal
Paintings 9 1/2" x 7 1/2"
Frames 16" x 14"

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A Mexican tin nicho frame, given to me by my friend Frank X Cordero from Santa Fe. The frame had a piece of newspaper in the back of it, folded over and teared, but with a date of 1910 on it. The paper perhaps had a reproduction of a saint on it, possibly La Preciosa Sangre de Cristo, or Nuestra Senora de la Luz.
I started a scraperboard-type work for this frame several months ago and have finally finished it. It's a reverse image of Durer's Melencolia engraving from 1514, in an attempt to reverse melancholy.

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I'm framing up some preparatory ink and wash sketches that I like. I ordered several frames, square, off-white in which I'll float-mount frame about 8 drawings. This is number two drawing, literally, of a devil on a toilet. I've just recently posted a photo of a ceramic talavera version of this motif that is on show at Rayner Brothers Gallery at present. I'm also working on my hand-modelling angles and techniques.

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I'm framing up some preparatory ink and wash sketches that I like. I ordered several frames, square, off-white in which I'll float-mount frame about 8 drawings. This one in the photo I haven't actually made a painting of yet, but it's based on my planchette snake idea (based on an Indian cobra, but with a hole in the middle of it, similar to that of a planchette which is the little wooden device used on Ouija boards). Apparently it's snake season here in Las Vegas, but not knowing anything about herpetology, I wouldn't have a clue what type of snakes are out there. Anyway, this is called 'Desert Companion', which is also the name of the local lifestyle magazine.

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Today is International Left-Hander's Day. Below is a painting I made about the Wrath of the Left-hander.

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(left) Lorenzo Monaco 'Man of Sorrows with Instruments of the Passion', 1404, tempera on panel, Accademia, Florence, Italy, (right) Matthew Couper, 'After Lorenzo Monaco's Man of Sorrows', 2005, pencil on paper, 7" x 4 1/2".

I did this drawing while doing some relief teaching for a friend who'd broken both wrists in a bike accident. I'd come across a black and white reproduction of the painting and really liked the relationship of the figures in the shallow space compared to the apparitions of the symbols of the Passion, more so than my other favourite of Fra Angelico's fresco in San Marco. I finally got to see this painting in the Accadamia, Florence in 2008

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A pre-fired photo of my 'Devil on the Toilet' keepsake box. This image doesn't show the cistern attached, which is the keep sake box.

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I've got three or four ceramic works in this upcoming exhibition
www.raynerbrothers.com

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