Matthew Couper
Limbo of the Journeyman
140”x63.3”
2013
Oil on canvas
About the artist.
“Matthew Couper is a native of New Zealand who has been painting in the USA since 2010. His artistic practice is rooted in his admiration for the anonymous devotional paintings that flourished in Spanish Colonial societies. By emulating the sincerity and devotional nature of these images, Couper has been able to create personal and idiosyncratic narratives that explore myth, religion, politics and personal experience. An artist who sees himself as a kind of "journeyman', Matthew Couper works in an egoless tradition that existed and flourished before culture and religion became increasingly orthodox.
An artist with a Kafkaesque view of the world, Couper uses his art to narrate personal uncertainties, and frustrations. He has found more than enough strangeness in the USA to challenge and stimulate his secular piety. Couper is both an intuitive, a moralist and a visionary.” - John Seed
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