Cotter Luppi was born in New York City and has a BFA and MFA in Sculpture. After he completed his MFA and moved back to New York City, drawing became his primary creative focus. His unique process of embossed drawings, using color pencil on heavy-weight paper, have a sculptural quality that has been described in reviews to “ripple and hover off the walls.” Cotter’s drawings range in scale as well as medium, he works with color pencil, graphite, as well as brush and ink on handmade paper.
Cotter Luppi’s work has been included in group exhibitions such as Colored Pencil, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY (2019); Discordinary, Catalyst Gallery, Beacon, NY (2019); Draw Down, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY (2019); Parallel Realities, Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY (2018); Hanging Paper, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA (2016); World Made By Hand, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY (2016); Fixate, Kiosk Gallery, Kansas City, MO (2016); Works from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, MoMA, New York, NY (2009); Compulsive Imagination, New York Center for Art & Media Studies, New York, NY (2005); Colored Pencil, KS Art, New York, NY (2004); Metastasize, Bronx River Arts Center, Bronx, NY (2003); A Special Place, Arena, Brooklyn, NY (2002); and BROOKLYN!, Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL. (2001), to name a few. Solo exhibitions of his drawings have been presented at Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York City (2016), Arena in Brooklyn (2000), and Daniel Silverstein Gallery in New York City (2002, 2003). Cotter Luppi has also been a speaker at Bowdoin College, ME (2002 and 2003), a special guest and curator to the art department at The University of Texas at Tyler (2011), and the curator of the exhibition Limbic Songs at RealEyes Gallery, Adams, MA (2019).
Cotter Luppi has a BFA from Alfred University School of Art & Design with an MFA from Wichita State University, and he attended Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. He is a 2017 recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award in Drawing. Critical acclaim and reviews of his work have appeared in: Art in America; ARTnews; artnet; TimeOut New York; in addition to several articles in The New York Times.
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2021
PRESS and LECTURES
Critical acclaim and reviews of Cotter Luppi’s work have appeared in: Art in America; ARTnews; artnet; TimeOut New York; in addition to several articles in The New York Times.
Cotter has also been a speaker at Bowdoin College, ME (2002 and 2003), and a special guest and curator to the art department at The University of Texas at Tyler (2011).
EDUCATION and AWARDS
Cotter Luppi has a BFA from Alfred University School of Art & Design with an MFA from Wichita State University, and he attended Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture.
He is a 2017 recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award in Drawing.
Drawing is the best way I can think of to integrate my interests in music, architecture, dreams, painting, and sculpture.
The clarity in the simplification of a line, on a piece of paper, can create a world that is trying to define what is inexplicable.
The challenge always is giving life to what is inert and static. The quiet sound of imbued images with implied emotional significance is what I am after.