Pasquale Cuppari

Pasquale Cuppari is a multi-media artist and humanist whose love for nature dates back to his earliest childhood days. Cuppari was born in a farming town of less than two hundred people in Calabria, Italy. As a young boy, Cuppari walked the fields, dug the soil, and experienced the beauty of nature.

Cuppari completed his education in Italy as a mechanical engineer, but realized early on that engineering was not what he wanted to do with his life. Moving to New York in 1957, Cuppari began a formal study of painting and music. He recorded several compositions and painted exhaustively while working to support his growing family.

On New Year's Eve, 1976, a devastating fire destroyed his house and most of his artwork to date. The fire gave birth to Cuppari's pioneering "More is More" philosophy of art which was a rebellion against Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's then prevalent philosophy "Less is More."

Cuppari found his first opportunity to exhibit his work in 1979, when he bought an old historical building in Elizabeth, NJ. He transformed this building into an "All Arts Center," where he co-founded two galleries through the federal C.I.T.A. program. He recruited a group of artists and set them up with studios and workshops. Thr...