SOLO

exhibition

UNITED STATES

A portrait of my mentor and friend, Lance Richlin, who posed for a portrait drawing study. I measured his head with a caliper so the portrait is life sized, due to lack of time, I had to finish this drawing from a photograph.

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Eugene’s work is in many private collections including in a private collection of Robert Harris Rothchild who has many notable works in his collection by artists like: Rembrandt, Chagall, Dali, Ernst, Lichtenstein, and many more.

The Devil is in the Details

Oil

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A conceptual work I did regarding the pandemic that has been sweeping the nation as well as the world for a long time. In 2019, two people I personally knew overdosed from hardcore drugs.

This painting shows an arrangement of various different drugs and drugs paraphernalia. In the center are the two most common types, being marijuana on the left and a cap off of an alcoholic drink on the right. They both are situated on my art business card, which has a painting of a homeless man, laying on Hollywood, as passengers pass him by. All of the items are in the form of a pentagram which is linked with the sign of the devil, and the items are also on a symbolic plastic body bag, which is what each victim of hardcore addiction eventually leaves in, if they overdose to death. I did this painting to bring awareness about the dangers of drugs.

Let's all work together, as opposed to working against one another.

An art catalog came out in 2012 featuring many of those artists as well as the work commissioned from Eugene.

The Holocaust, while it was the largest persecution of the Jewish people, wasn't the first.

There has been an attempt to divide humans into over 5000 different ethnic groups, and my question is, whether the original 3-5 racial groups or 5000 ethnic groups, what difference does it make? Do further divisions make people feel more or less secure? I did this painting during a time of political identity segregation in the United States. My initial statement, is that while these three canvases interchange, there is no clear winner. We are all in this planet together and should unite rather than divide, because we have a lot more in common than we think we do. Let's all work together, as opposed to working against one another.

The Holocaust has made it clear that this can happen again, and anywhere.

The Armenian Genocide has not been recognized as a genocide through a worldwide consensus such as The Holocaust has. This painting shows a possibly Turkish man, teasing starving Armenian children and an elderly woman with a piece of pita bread. By doing this piece, I'm not aiming to demonize any group of people, including Turkish people alive today, who had nothing to do with what happened over 100 years. However, the problem with this genocide not being recognized worldwide is that it allows for other genocides to take place. If The Armenian Genocide would be recognized, it would create a chain reaction worldwide to stop current genocides and prevent future genocides. Among the victims of the Armenian Genocide, were 1.5 million Armenian men, women and children. Other groups who suffered in this genocide includes 450,000-750,000 Greeks, 300,000 Bulgarians and 150,000-300,000 Assyrians.

A portrait I did of a wonderful model named Shona. I have done numerous pieces of her, but I think this one is the best.

From 2010 to his passing in 2014, Eugene Kuperman studied with a renowned Russian artist Leonid Steele whose works are in many museums in the world, including pieces in the Tretyakov Gallery in Russia.

One of Leonid’s former teachers was a student of a famous Russian landscape painter: Isaac Levitan and another teacher he had, was a student of the famous Russian artist: Ilya Repin.

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The Holocaust, while it was the largest persecution of the Jewish people, wasn't the first. Jews have been scapegoats for everyone's problems for thousands of years. Of course, out of 14-20 million victims of the Holocaust 6 million were Jews. (Although Jews were the primary target of Hitler and the Nazi Party.) That was half of Jewish world population at the time. (Mostly all the European Ashkenazi Jews.) Other groups that were persecuted by the Nazis were: homosexuals, Jehovah’s witnesses, Polish people, Romani people, black people, Soviet prisoners of war, Spanish Republicans and the disabled.
The Holocaust also made it clear that it can happen again and anywhere, this is why the formation of the State of Israel is crucial to the survival of the Jewish people. There is lots of anti-Israel propaganda of which many decent people fall for. However, a lot of it is demagoguery and lies. I have my own criticism of Israel, but I wouldn't want Israel to seize existence as a Jewish state. In today's world, Israel is attacked politically by different countries as well as different professional organizations, while they also give a pass to countries who are far worse abusers of human rights. If there are many Christian and Muslim nations, why is the only Jewish nation the target of all of the hate? Why shouldn't Israel have a right to exist as a Jewish state, in a world which proved to persecute Jews throughout thousands of years and everywhere they lived? Jewish people have ancient ancestral roots to the land of Israel. This isn't to say that Palestinians have no place there, I hope Israel and Palestinians reach a peace agreement to live side by side as neighbors instead of enemies.