Exhibition
Between an Islet, Island and Strait - Matthew Couper
6 Sep 2024 – 30 Sep 2024
Regular hours
- Friday
- 11:00 – 21:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 21:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 21:00
Free admission
Address
- 4633 Hollywood Boulevard
- Los Angeles
California - 90027
- United States
Las Vegas based, New Zealand raised artist Matthew Couper exhibits his surrealist psycho-scapes artwork at La Luz de Jesus Gallery.
About
Between an Islet, Island and Strait
Matthew Couper
Sept 6 – Sept 29
Opening Reception: Sept 6th, 7pm – 11pm
4633 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90027
Aotearoa/New Zealand-born artist Matthew Couper exhibits his recent work, reflecting on the isolation of his early life in the South Pacific and his Covid quarantine in the Mojave Desert, while re-evaluating life with a fresh perspective in a post-Covid era. His paintings and drawings portray deserted psycho-scapes and enigmatic, sea-encircled islands dominated by makeshift survival tools and shelters. This psychological space—both within the artist’s mind and on the canvas—represents a non-specific location, a blend of past and present places, and an ever-evolving vista of a self-created paradise. Couper re-appropriates the automatism of Russian Non-objective painting to create a visual representation of anthropocentric echo chambers as an immaterial process. and the The term ‘desert-island’ not only bridges Couper’s remote homes through his art but also evokes the inner states of social isolation experienced during periods of intense external population growth.
