ART CITIES:N.York-Cotter Luppi

Cotter Luppi’s large colored pencil drawings on paper fit into a Contemporary kind of organic abstraction that isn’t really organic or abstract at all. Its forms tend to look simultaneously carnal and mechanical, decorative but packed with information. The result is an art about mutant, morphing, bionic things. It suits the new sovereignty of genetic codes and replacement parts.

By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: Morgan Lehman Gallery archive

Cotter Luppi was born in New York City, New York. He earned his BFA at the Alfred University School of Art and Design, and his MFA in Sculpture at Wichita State University. Cotter Luppi for his solo exhibition at Morgan Lehman Gallery presents works in a palette of pinks and excremental browns, the artist shapes seem to refer to cartoons, mandalas and body parts. Intestinal loops and sliced-off arterial tubes float beside sprocket wheels bristling with nipples and Tantric flames. Cotter Luppi keeps all this shape-shifting under firm control with the pressure of his hand. He works his pencils so hard that the individual forms swell out in relief from the surface of the paper as if they were embossed.

Info: Morgan Lehman Gallery, 534 West 24th Street, New York, Duration 8/9-8/10/16, Days & Hours: Mon-Fri 11:00-18:00, www.morganlehmangallery.com