Joe Cupani. Painter.  

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I won't explain my work with fancy philosophical language filled with intellectual analytical verse.  That's just not my thing. Being born into the bus exhaust fume filled hard edged streets of lower east side NYC circa 1950s/60s, actions spoke louder than words. So I'll let my work speak for itself. I was a street kid in a cement jungle. It was a sometimes lonely, surreal existence. Beautiful though. Sometimes a little scary. We were poor.  Never lived in a house. Always apartment dwellers.  I use ordinary objects like toilets, bowling alleys, sidewalks, buses, trains, laundry rooms, bar pool tables, etc. As I remember them to hopefully convey that lonely, surreal feeling through the eyes of a young boy lost in the city. May you connect in some way.

 



Cal’s Bar. 1960 NYC.

Clotheslines 1957 NYC. SOLD (In the collection of Dr Ben Cohen)

Hillbilly Truck Memory. 1963 Upstate NY.

Barber Shop. 1960 NYC. SOLD. In the collection of Ms. Renee’ Stoller

"Neighborhood Coke Dealer 1960"(Lower East Side NYC)

Hot Dog Cart. circa 1960 NYC. SOLD. In the collection of the Rankin family.

Lamp With Table And Cigarette. 1959 NYC.

"Who you lookin at?" (East village NYC 1960s) SOLD. In the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Misar

D Train. 1960 NYC. SOLD (In the collection of Jay Stein MD)

Luncheonette. 1961 NYC. SOLD (In the collection of Dr. Ben Cohen)

Gas Station On First Street and Houston 1958 NYC.

Get Off My Stoop! 1958 NYC.

Mystery Boat. 1966 NYC.

BMT Subway Car. 1958 NYC.

1st Avenue Bus. 1958 NYC. SOLD. In the collection of Richard Eber.

BMT Subway Entrance Memory. 1956 NYC.

3rd Avenue El With Carmine. 1954 NYC.

Row Houses. 1960 Patchogue, NY.

Love Train. 1966 NYC

Dryers. 1965 Corona, NY.

Electrical Boxes And Meters. 1965 Astoria NY.

Long Road To Nowhere. 1969 Woodstock NY

Subway Public Toilet. 1957 NY.

F Train Memory. 1968 NYC.

Hotel of Lost Souls. 1971 Nassau, Bahamas.

99 East 4th Street Lobby. 1960 NYC

Fat Guy On The Beach. 1957 Coney Island, NY

Crossing First Avenue. 1960 NYC.

Joecupani

Losing At Eight Ball. 1960. Cal’s Bar NY

Bowling At Cannon’s. NYC 1960

Lost Spaldeen Ball 1958. NY NY

Showing at Jeanie Tengelson Gallery

Showing at Jeanie Tengelson Gallery

From a juried show at the Brooklyn Waterfront Gallery 2017.

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