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Almine Rech

Kurt Kauper

Kurt Kauper is a painter whose work had, for the past fifteen years, been images of familiar cultural icons—opera divas, Cary Grant, hockey players, and Barack and Michelle Obama—seen in a variety of unfamiliar ways. His figure paintings of historical and imagined people tend to leave expectations unfulfilled, and elide simple categorization. In contradistinction to his clear and precise articulations of form, Kauper's content is characterized by indeterminacy, unintentionality, ambiguity, fluidity, destabilization, strangeness, amorality, uselessness, and the neutral. 

Selected artworks

  • Kurt Kauper,                                      Study for Woman #5, 2017

    Kurt Kauper Study for Woman #5, 2017

    Graphite on paper
    109,9 x 73,7 cm (framed)
    43 1/4 x 29 in (framed)

  • Kurt Kauper,                                      Study for Woman #4, 2017

    Kurt Kauper Study for Woman #4, 2017

    Graphite on paper
    109,9 x 73,7 cm (framed)
    43 1/4 x 29 in (framed)

  • Kurt Kauper,                                      Study for Woman #3, 2017

    Kurt Kauper Study for Woman #3, 2017

    Graphite on paper
    116,2 x 73,7 cm (framed)
    45 3/4 x 29 in (framed)

  • Kurt Kauper,                                      Study for Woman #2, 2017

    Kurt Kauper Study for Woman #2, 2017

    Graphite on paper
    109,9 x 73,7 cm (framed)
    43 1/4 x 29 in (framed)

  • Kurt Kauper,                                      Woman #4, 2017

    Kurt Kauper Woman #4, 2017

    Oil on Dibond
    223,5 x 147,3 cm
    88 x 58 in

  • Kurt Kauper,                                      Woman #3, 2017

    Kurt Kauper Woman #3, 2017

    Oil on Dibond
    223,5 x 147,3 cm
    88 x 58 in

  • Kurt Kauper,                                      Woman #2, 2017

    Kurt Kauper Woman #2, 2017

    Oil on Dibond
    223,5 x 147,3 cm
    88 x 58 in

  • Kurt Kauper,                                      Man Lying Down 4, 2016

    Kurt Kauper Man Lying Down 4, 2016

    Oil on Dibond
    34,3 x 76,2 cm
    13,5 x 30 in

Gallery exhibitions