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Edward Coppola

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Edward Coppola is an artist living and working in Staten Island, NY. He is an adjunct professor and chief college laboratory technician in photography at Brooklyn College/CUNY. He received his MFA from Brooklyn College in 1998. He has had recent solo exhibitions at the New York Open Center; the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn; University College Art Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ; and the Brooklyn College Art Gallery. His work has been included in many group shows in New York and around the U.S.

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

My collages incorporate found images and small natural objects such as seeds into carefully painted depictions of the connections between inner and outer universes. The layering of paper, paint, and mixed media serves as a metaphor for the layers and veils of memory and consciousness. Often there are references to macrocosm and microcosm, to outer space and the inner space of the human body and mind, to mundane everyday existence and the timelessness of the universal. I try to find beauty and humor in my visual interpretations of the unity of the physical, spiritual, and metaphysical realms.