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Born in Providence, RI, Eveline Luppi has deep roots
in both the Rhode Island and Manhattan art communities.
She has worked as a painter, sculptor and ceramicist
since 1980, and has exhibited in many galleries and
shows. In the late 80s and 90s, she studied contemporary
art on scholarship at the Art Student League of New
York, where her mentors were the internationally known
artists Knox Martin, Larry Poons, and William Scharf.
After 20 years of painting, Luppi's current work,
2009-2010 reveals the figurative style-from the unconscious
and at times giving example to automation as in the
painting, Double Headed Woman. Like Miro, she creates
strongly colored shapes and images that seem filled
with a fluid and shifting impulsion. Her series "Musicians"
(2009) is a recent example of this type of dynamic,
with its abstract iconic depictions of "Aretha"
(in the red hat that she wore at the Obama inauguration),
"Working My Bass" (showing a musician hunched
closely over his instrument), "Tuba Man" (a
massive multicolored tuba against a backdrop of colored
shapes, with a disembodied hand holding the valves).
In early 2008, she opened Eveline Luppi Gallery in
Wickford, RI. She represents artists from New England,
New York, Europe, and Latin America.
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