RECENT WORK: Quesperanza

Paul Soupiset Quesperanza, 2021-2022 SOLD Birdhouse with 24k gold leaf appliqué, hand-formed nest; bottle containing multicolored bird leg bands; accompanying 19” x 12.5” pencil drawing on paper.   His recent work Quesperanza (part of a collaborative fine art auction benefiting nonprofit A Rocha USA and its mission to preserve biodiversity through conservation) focuses on the…

RECENT WORK: PASSOVER::OVERPASS

Recent work—started in 2019, finished April, 2020. Update: SOLD Clockwise from top left: Passover I, 2019-2020. 9″x3″x0.875″ Watercolor, Graphite, and Ink Passover II, 2019-2020. 9″x3″x0.875″ Watercolor, Graphite, and Ink Passover IV, 2019-2020. 9″x3″x0.875″ Watercolor, Graphite, and Ink Passover III, 2019-2020. 9″x3″x0.875″ Watercolor, Graphite, and Ink

Labyrinthine-Layers in acrylic

LABYRINTHS

Clockwise from top left: 1. God is Flame, 2019. 12″x12″x0.75″ acrylic + ink on watercolor paper, 60. (120 framed) 2. Love Unto Love, 2019. 12″x12″x0.75″ acrylic + ink on watercolor paper, 60. (120 framed) 3. Via Vitae (detail), 2019. 12″x12″ acrylic on canvas (SOLD) 4. Carmina Gadelica, 2015. Triptych, acrylic on 4″x12″ canvas panels 60.…

Topo-Soteriology 2017

1725: Topo-Soteriology (San Antonio Primer) Paul Soupiset, 2018 Cut Paper and Mixed Media, 30 in. x23 in. Art Pace — Common Currents Exhibition This piece employs the style of 17th century colonial primers—simple, childlike, didactic verses—paired with a visual process that attempts to step humbly into the tradition of papel picado. I explore/appropriate both the…

Stations of the Cross, 2012

In 2012, I created the second and third Stations of the Cross, for use at Covenant, a church just outside of San Antonio. This version of the Stations follows the more modern versions suggested and sanctioned by Roman Catholic popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI)   Station II, 2012. 12″ x 12″ x 4″…

Video: Cairn, 2012

Dry-stacked cairn, Paul Soupiset October 13, 2012, 25 minutes. “…The cairn only fell over once while I was stacking this iteration, but the wind picked up Friday about 5pm, and when I returned to the boulder in the evening, all but the base had fallen over. Patience, yes, but the slower you’re willing to move,…

Looking back: bewildermefly

This painting is about eight years old. It has appeared in GENERATE Magazine and in packaging design for an Eric Peters album, The Birds of Relocation.  bewildermefly, Paul Soupiset, ca. 2009; acrylic and mix media, ±54″ x 60″ collection of Steven Gonzalez / photo: Steven Gonzalez.  

4 New Works, September 2017

I put the finishing touches on a few paintings/assemblages this weekend/week: Lunargrope II, 2017. 12″x12″x2″ acrylic and Uni Posca white ink-paint on birch panel. For sale. 85. Sold. Ghost Ranch I, 2017. 12″x12″x2″ acrylic and Uni Posca white ink-paint on birch panel. For sale. 85. Sold. Labyrinth #12 (Dark Night), 2017. 12″x12″x2″ acrylic and on…

New Yeller.

New Yeller, Summer, 2017. 30″ x 40″. Acrylic and pencil on gallery-wrap canvas. For sale. 150. Sold. (This painting, New Yeller, is an homage to an earlier painting I did that’s in the collection of Steven Gonzalez. I’ll try to post it soon, too.)    

Carmina Gadelica Labyrinth

A labyrinthine prayer from Carmina Gadelica “…Carmina Gadelica is a compendium of prayers, hymns, charms, incantations, blessings, literary-folkloric poems and songs, proverbs, lexical items, historical anecdotes, natural history observations, and miscellaneous lore gathered in the Gaelic-speaking regions of Scotland between 1860 and 1909. The material was recorded, translated, and reworked by the exciseman and folklorist…

Salt

Three years ago, I invited a group of retreat participants to join me in a collaborative art-making project. Complicating matters — this was done with no verbal instruction: we were participating in a contemplative retreat led by Mary Earle, and had taken vows of silence for the day. It ended up being a sublime afternoon…

Terminal Minotaur

The SANDY WOOD & OTHER VOICES channel just went live on YouTube a few moments ago. A collaborative YouTube channel where Sandy brings together poets, painters, filmmakers, voice talent, photographers, and other creatives.  Terminal Minotaur was the first video in the series, and was a collaboration between Chris Taylor, Sandy Wood and myself, with video…

Revisiting: Jesus for President

In 2008, Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw released Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals, a book for which I contributed 40 or so watercolor illustrations. Here are a few of the interior images.   [share title=”share” facebook=”true” twitter=”true” google_plus=”true” linkedin=”true” pinterest=”true” reddit=”true” email=”true”]

Ink

[x_video_embed no_container=”true”] [/x_video_embed]   I’m working on a new tattoo design (not shown here), but it led me to go find these old ones and post them. The weird thing about art for bodies: sometimes the artist does a great job; sometimes they butcher it; sometimes the recipient decides not to get it inked, and…

Revisiting: Halo I & II

It’s strange to see a piece of art you’ve made years ago, having not seen it in person in the intervening years. Yesterday I was reacquainted with two such pieces. In 2008 I crated up two large pen-and-ink drawings on gesso board and shipped them to Los Altos, California, where they have resided in the…