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.

Studies
2007: Master of Fine Arts, painting, City University of New York, New York, USA
Teaching Assistant Painting, BFA, City College of New York, USA
National Academy of Design, School of Fine Arts, New York

Selected shows
2016: Pan Amsterdam, Studio 2000, stand 63
2016: summer show: Galerie Noorderlicht Domburg
2015: Peter Pappot, sail Amsterdam
2013: Agora Gallery New York City.
2013: Figuratie, Abstractie, Vorm, 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 Amicitiae Amsterdam
2008 Primavera beurs, Rotterdam
2007 Kunsthandel Jan van den Elsthout, Den Haag, NL
2007 Bronwater, Kunsthandel Kupperman Amsterdam, NL*
2007 Hunter College, CUNY, New York, CAA MFA Exhibition
2006 MFA Thesis Show, Compton Goethals Gallery, New York*
2006 A.I.R. Gallery New York, Generations 05
2006 Twenty Two Gallery, Philadelphia
2005 Qbix Gallery, Old City Philadelphia
2005 JMS Gallery, Chestnut Hill Pennsylvania
2005 William Way Gallery MemoryScapes, Philadelphia USA*
2005 Diversity and Tradition, CCNY Alumni & Student Biennial, Aaron Davis Hall, New York

Chaya lives in Amsterdam and works in her studio in Amsterdam and in Italy |  Member of Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam.