02/03/2018
The American artist Nissa Kauppila graduated with a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a master’s degree in education from the University of Vermont. Her works are full of oftantalising contradictions, with birds and wings as her frequent subjects and Chinese ink and water colour as her medium of choice, Kauppila captures fleeting moments of ‘chaos’ - a flutter of feathers, a flash of motion in the air, elements exploding or forming together - with a surprising serenity. The fragile beauty of these split seconds is in this way frozen in time, calling to mind the transient nature of life and defying it at the same time.
Clarissa Tam
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