Chaya Kupperman

Chaya Kupperman crafts thick, rich compositions that remind the viewer of landscapes and street views while remaining staunchly and seductively abstract. She cites the influence of traditional Dutch landscape painting, whose horizontal vistas and gray-blue skies are major components of her work. Beneath these fringes of pale azure, she unleashes bold tones in overlapping and intersecting swaths, some applied in layered, diagonal brushstrokes, others tightly hemmed in by rectangular forms that suggest people and buildings.

Kupperman expertly avoids letting her work be pinned down as figurative, however, instead letting it float in an indeterminate zone, just as her most saturated tones hover against their softer surroundings. This intriguing quality is evocative and appealing, allowing the viewer to engage fully with each piece on their own terms, particularly as Kupperman confounds distinctions between foreground and background, object and setting. She trains our vision on the intricacies of pure chromatic interplay, the rich textures of her densely impastoed oil paints, and the multitude of images and sensations they conjure.

2006: Master of Fine Arts, painting, (MFA) City University of New York, City College, New York
Teaching Assistant Painting, BFA, City College of New York
National Academy of Design, School of Fine Arts, New York.

2022:
ARTI Salon, Rokin 112, Amsterdam, 16 december- 8 januari 2023
Pan Amsterdam, 20-27 november 2022, Studio 2000, stand 58
Kunstrai, 37th edition 13-18 april 2022, Studio 2000, stand 73 http://www.kunstrai.nl/galerie/kunsthandel-studio-2000

2021: Pan Amsterdam, studio 2000, stand 62
2020: Memory I series in pop up art space Arti Amsterdam*
2019: Kunstrai Amsterdam
2018: Pan Amsterdam, studio 2000, stand 63
2017/2018/2019: Galerie Noorderlicht, Domburg
2016/2017: Pan Amsterdam, Studio 2000, stand 63
2016: summer show: Galerie Noorderlicht Domburg*
2015: Peter Pappot, sail Amsterdam
2013: Figuratie, Abstractie, Vorm, (Miniatures) Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam*
2012: Aanwas 8, Beroepsvereniging Beeldend Kunstenaars
2012: AMP/Art Market Gallery Provincetown, MA. USA
2012: Chaya Kupperman, Peter Pappot Amsterdam*
2012 Portals, Kunsthandel Studio 2000, Blaricum*
2011 Salon, Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam
2010 Back from the USA, Kunsthandel Peter Pappot, Amsterdam*
2010 Five Years of Painting, New York-Amsterdam, Expositie ruimte New Spiegelstr, 14 Amsterdam*
2010 Salon, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2009 Kunsthandel Kupperman, Migrates Amsterdam, NL *
2009 Nieuwe Leden Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam
2008 Salon, Arti et...