Chaya Kupperman
Page 1 | Biography
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Born: 1965
Lives: Amsterdam, Netherlands
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2007: Master of Fine Arts, painting, City University of New York, New York, USA
2005/2006: Teaching Assistant Painting, BFA, City College of New York, USA
2000-2003: National Academy of Design, School of Fine Arts, New York
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2012, Kunsthandel Jan van den Elshout, The Hague, NL
2012 Portals, Kunsthandel Studio 2000, Blaricum, NL
2010 Back from the USA, Kunsthandel Peter Pappot, Amsterdam, NL
2010 Five Years of Painting, New York-Amsterdam, Expositie ruimte New Spiegelstr, 14 Amsterdam, NL
2010 Five Years of Painting, New York-Amsterdam, Expositie ruimte New Spiegelstr, 14 Amsterdam, NL
2009 Kunsthandel Kupperman, Migrates Amsterdam, NL
2007 Bronwater, Kunsthandel Kupperman Amsterdam, NL
2006 MFA Thesis Show, Compton Goethals Gallery, New York, USA
2005 William Way Gallery MemoryScapes, Philadelphia USA
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2010/2012 Salon, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2007 Kunsthandel Jan van den Elsthout, Den Haag, NL
2007 Hunter College, CUNY, New York, CAA MFA Exhibition, USA
2006 A.I.R. Gallery New York, Generations 05, USA
2006 Twenty Two Gallery, Philadelphia
2005 Qbix Gallery, Old City Philadelphia
2005 JMS Gallery, Chestnut Hill Pennsylvania
2005 Diversity and Tradition, CCNY Alumni & Student Biennial, Aaron Davis Hall, New York
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Artist Statement
My work is about the journey I took as a child within the Dutch landscape, The Uiterwaarden. This journey, which is reflected in a discovery of perspective and variation of color, against the ever-changing liquidity in the sky, is one of the main source of inventing form and symbolism. The changing light made the forms of the earth different, the shadows prolonged, the colors brighter as the sun hit a certain point on the earth, while other areas were contrasting its darkness.
These experiences became a part of my fantasy world. This world was ominous, adventurous and beautiful at the same time. There always has been a division between land and sky. The sky is transparent, far away and all around us, like a womb, in which there are sources of fantasy within form. References of mystical things are reflected in the sky. The sky is filled with clouds, birds, color and these clouds have wonderful forms, like the faces of angels, which changed into monsters and back into all imaginable forms possible.
The land involves danger and excitement within the investigation of different terrains. The uneasiness of little steps holding on to the ground was an investigation of awareness of my own fragility.
The land, the earth with all it�s different substances is a metaphor how I see life, how I relate to my own body and how the body is an instrument to experience life and how awareness is reflected in the physicality of the brush work. The journey starts on the bottom part of the paintings and it takes the viewer along hidden obstacles into the space on the path of imaginary freedom, which is reflected in the mark making and use of color in the sky.
The forms are integrated and integrating the paintings. The forms function as pointers within the composition. The seclusion of forms, referential to figures, pillars, fences, bridges, birds, oval trees are an essential part of the symbolism in the work. Most of these symbols are hidden forces, which are helpers or opponents within the journey in the landscapes.
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