Pierre Coupey, painter and printmaker, bases his practice in Vancouver and exhibits nationally and internationally. His work is represented in numerous private, corporate and public collections, including the Burnaby Art Gallery, Canada Council Art Bank, Kamloops Art Gallery, Simon Fraser University Art Gallery, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, and Vancouver Art Gallery. His work is represented by Gallery Jones.
"A fundamental fact of Coupey’s practice is his focus on the language of abstraction. He is resolutely committed to an inquiry and understanding of experience –– of form and space –– through the process of painting. As artist and theorist Ian Wallace has pointed out, 'Abstract art has always had an ambivalent relation to what can be said about it. Interpretation is simultaneously demanded and refused.' Coupey’s abstractions refuse reductive interpretation. Rather, they present us with the urgency of felt experience, and require that we respond with our own personal sense of engagement and feeling.” more