Biography
David Kupferman is a nationally known lyric abstract expressionist artist with over 40 solo shows. He had two solo museum shows at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, and Danforth Museum of Art , MA. and has shown in galleries in N.Y., Boston, Chicago, L.A., Miami, London, Paris, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Naples, Santa Fe, Washington, Houston & Iowa. He is in 15 museum collections including the Naples Museum, FL; DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; Davis Museum,Wellesley College: U. of New Hampshire Gallery; Cape Cod Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Art-Springfield, MA; Mullen Museum, Boston College; Boston Public Library; MassCollege of Art; and Krannert Museum, Urbana; Stamford Museum, CT; and the Boca Museum of Art, FL. He is in numerous institutions and corporations like the Federal Reserve Banks of Boston and Chicago, JP Morgan Bank, LA, Anatole Hotel, Houston, Sheraton Hotel, LA, Fidelity Investments, Boston and is the recipient of some major grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Adolph Gottlieb Foundation. He was the subject of an hour long TV documentary.
Kupferman’s work combines spontaneous, gestural imagery with geometric abstract shapes of color and linear patterns that weave a tapestry of flowing images in a unique fusion of Eastern and Western styles. He paints while listening to classical Indian music, Vedic chants or some improvisational jazz which helps move the flow of energy where you can feel the rhythms, pulse and vibrating waves of sound expressed in paint. They relate particularly to Indian Ragamala paintings, Persian miniatures, Japanese and Chinese Zen screens and Western Cubism and abstract paintings. Some are more landscape-seascape oriented inspired by his summers on Cape Cod as well as the expansive Iowa skies called Light Waves and Sea Psalms with sublime atmospheric vibrations of unbounded lighted skies and eternally flowing waves that create a holistic visceral experience. His work is available in Iowa, Boston, and several other locations.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My lyric abstract paintings are celebrations of the mystery, magnitude and dynamism of life, an expression of the infinite flow of light and the expansion of inner consciousness. They work on many levels simultaneously: unity in diversity, space and form, light and color, silence and movement, inner and outer awareness. They are informed by both Eastern and Western aesthetics and philosophy and integrates the two.
They are painted in a spontaneous manner, a kind of joyous improvisational duet with the rhythms of nature, a visual gospel of hymns singing the praise of nature and life. While painting I listen to Indian Vedic hymns, Indian Ragas or improvisational jazz which helps move the flow of energy where you can feel the rhythms, pulse and vibrating waves of sound expressed in paint. My art becomes a spontaneous performance piece where I improvise along with the musicians as a visual player in the ensemble. The linear, geometric rectangular shapes act as windows or portals that help the viewer move in and out of the picture plane, flowing from outer perception to inner transcendence. They also act as a counterpointal balance to the free flowing gestural strokes of paint. Some of the paintings have references to sea and sky where the boundaries between landscapes and abstracts merge. The ocean and sky are symbols of the all encompassing, infinite flow and power of nature. Many of these paintings were done on or inspired by Cape Cod where sea light has a particular intensity with sublime atmospheric vibrations of lighted skies and rhythmically flowing waves, and also by the expansive Iowa skies over the Plains.
The paintings are both atmospheric and concrete, flowing back and forth between movement and stability. Each new painting is a joyous revelation creating a discrete world unto itself. Available in Boston and Iowa among other locations.
