Michael Kupillas

Michael Kupillas (°1967, Oceanside, United States) makes paintings and media art. By merging several seemingly incompatible worlds into a new universe, Kupillas creates work through labour-intensive processes which are inspired by a nineteenth-century tradition of works. His paintings are often classified as part of the new romantic movement because of the desire for the local in the unfolding globalized world. However, this reference is not intentional, as this kind of art is part of the collective memory.Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination.

His works establish a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver. These works focus on concrete questions that determine our existence. The work incorporates time as well as space – a fictional and experiential universe that only emerges bit by bit.

Michael Kupillas currently lives in Delray Beach