Matthias Lupri — Artist’s Biography
Studio: Boston, MA
Born: Germany | 1964
Matthias has been working within the arts all his life in various aspects. His goal is to integrate painting, music, film, photography, narrative, and poetry cohesively, while drawing from life, dreams, symbols, myth, philosophy and psychology.
Born in Germany 1964, Lupri grew up in the wilds of Alberta, Canada with a wonderstruck fascination of nature, flight, arts, and mythical dreams. After years of studying music and touring road life, Matthias ventured to Boston to focus on the study of jazz vibraphone with Gary Burton. After releasing six CD’s of original music and touring internationally, he discovered the parallel symbiosis of painting to music, and quickly started a new direction in 2012. After years as a palette knife oil painter, Matthias has been steadily putting out various series of paintings, showing at galleries, and selling his work internationally.
Artist’s Statement
In a general reflection on my art and life, I feel that the unconscious and conscious landscape hemispheres collide creating positive and negative tension within our lives. The unconscious has an existence of time immemorial within your myth, while our conscious life ego awakes daily to a fresh new day. So I question; How do we exist through these our entire lives, shaping us toward the past, present and future as one totality? In which way does the essence of it all give meaning to who we are and contribute to our interactions with each other, our earth and universe?
It has been a lifelong search and journey revealing my art through these philosophical and psychological constructs. Art that coexists and works in conjunction with these constructs and with each other: painting, music, poetry, photography, film and narrative. The landscape hemispheres and archetypes create new paths to follow and show themselves as personal empirical motifs within the art abstractly. They prove to be part of the memory, dream, reflection symbiosis.
It is all much a mystery and interesting pursuit.
Primary Focus
To integrate and pull my oil-mixed media paintings from life, dreams, symbols, myth, philosophy and psychology, while also simultaneously from my music composition, film, photography and narrative cohesively.
Selected Painting Exhibits
Solo, 2012-2026
TAG Gallery – SOWA, Boston, MA
Gallery 67 – Boston, MA
Simpatico Gallery Charleston, SC
CFA Gallery SoWa – Boston, MA
Gallery 444 – Provincetown, MA
IL Decor – Boston, MA
Liberty Hotel – Boston, MA
Gallery Voyeur – Provincetown, MA
M2L Gallery – Boston, MA
Neiman Marcus – Boston, MA
Pat Tierney Group – Hyde Park, MA
Group, 2012-2026
Simpatico Gallery Charleston, SC
Boston International Art Fair
NYC Art Expo
Arlo Wynwood Gallery Miami
TAG Gallery – SOWA, Boston, MA
United States Embassy, Vienna, Austria
Harvard University Gallery – Cambridge, MA
Stephanie Saunders Gallery – Boston, MA
Thos. Moser – Boston, MA
Brewery Gallery, Hyde Park, MA
Liquid Art House Gallery – Boston, MA
Art Museum – Warwick, RI
Mother Brook Art Studios – Dedham, MA
Gallery 580 – Boston, MA
Gallery 67 – Boston, MA
Gallery Sitka – Newport, RI
Gallery Sitka – Fitchburg, MA
Switch Gallery – Hyde Park, MA
Masterpiece Gallery – Boston, MA
Gallery 334 – Milton MA
Wall Gallery – Norwood, MA
Gallery Voyeur – Provincetown, MA
Distillery Gallery – Boston, MA
Strand Theatre Gallery – Boston, MA
Gallery 350 Harrison – Boston, MA
WGBH Fine Art Auction – Alston, MA
Design Center – Boston, MA
City Hall – Boston, MA
BNN Studios – Boston, MA
Open Studios SoWa – Boston, MA
Menino Arts Center – Hyde Park, MA
1581 Gallery – Brighton, MA
International Art Sales
USA, Canada, Japan, China, Australia, Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Italy, New Zealand, Bahrain, Saudia Arabia
Educational Background
MassArt College Boston, Oil Painting, Figurative and Abstract 2013
Emerson University Boston, Writing for Film 2012
CP Casting Scene Study 1&2, New York City Various Master Classes 2011
Berklee College of Music Boston Bachelor of Music, Studies w/Gary Burton 1994
Mount Royal College Calgary, Canada Jazz studies – percussion, vibraphone and piano 1983
The Road – Rock Drummer 1984-90
Music – Matthias Lupri Group 1992-2017
Composer, Leader, Vibraphonist – Release of Six Published CD’s of Original Music w/Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mark Turner, Ruben Rogers, Greg Hutchinson, Myron Walden, Donny McCaslin, Nate Radley, Thomson Kneeland, Jordan Perlson, Cuong Vu, George Garzone, John Lockwood, Sebastiaan de Krom
International Jazz Festival Tours 1992-2017
Montreal, The Hague-North Sea, Atlanta, Seattle, Vancouver, Boston, NYC, Winnipeg, Toronto, Halifax, Ottawa, Calgary, Los Angeles, San Diego, Albuquerque, Clearwater, Charleston
Radio Play and Critical Reviews 1992-2017
CBC, NPR, GAVIN, Down Beat, Jazz Times, Coda, Jazz Week, All About Jazz, Jazz Review, Cadence etc.
