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Matthew Couper

Isolation Paintings

17 September - 30 October 2022

About the exhibition

Matthew Couper is an Aotearoa/ New Zealand born artist, living and working in the USA. After a decade of painting detailed, highly symbolic artworks, his Isolation Paintings return to a gestural figuration, reminiscent of works created early in his career. From the middle of 2019, desert island landscapes, moody skies enveloped with plumes of smoke, eyeballs, nails and Kazimir Malevich-like-constructions, started to inhabit the surfaces of his canvases. Modes of survival and visible threats are presented: fire-starting bow drills and ominous shark fins prowl the surrounding sea, while floating, crisscrossed wood matrices allude to a makeshift shelter. Although Couper now lives in the Mojave Desert, he seems to be looking back to the seclusion and isolation of Aotearoa - especially in a world of pandemic peril.
Image: Courtesy of the artist and Paul Nache Gallery

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Marlborough Art Gallery

(formerly Millennium Public Art Gallery)

15 High Street

PO Box 692

Blenheim 7240

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(by arrangement)
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Tues - Fri 10am - 4pm

Weekends  1pm - 4pm

Public Holidays - Closed

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