ART! The Power of Pattern – Eveline Luppi

Photo: Rail Lines – 24×24 – 2023

The Pawtucket City Hall Gallery’s next featured artist is Eveline Luppi, whose exhibition has been installed and will run NOW until June 28th, 8-430pm. An opening reception will be held Thursday, April 13th from 4 to 6pm. The Gallery is located inside Pawtucket City Hall on Roosevelt Avenue, and is presented by the Arts and Culture Commission of the city.

The Power of Pattern
In an artist’s statement, My Geometric Journey from a small American Textile Town, Luppi says:
“Over the years, I’ve steadily grown more interested in the idea of “art as pattern.” This is deeply
rooted in my childhood experience.

When I was little, my mother would take me to textile factory back rooms. In those days, the Rhode Island textile mills were humming along. After I lost my father at the age of 8, my mother sorted out a thriftier lifestyle and began sewing clothes for the family.

In the showrooms I often strayed off on my own, browsing the many colorful fabrics and notions;
keenly observing, color, pattern, and design. I would page through the pattern books of McCall,
Butterick and Vogue. Later, I would sew a colorful coordinated wardrobe for college.

I thank the back-room clerk for the friendly assistance lifting fabric bolts open for me to always
get the best look. At the age of 8 I began my journey of pattern building.

Perhaps it was predictable that my painting endeavors would surface my early childhood
fascination with pattern, color and design. As my painting voice developed, this early passion
became very evident in my work. It felt natural and fluid to be thinking in patterns.
My canvas has always been my worksheet. I am passionately devoted to moving color
throughout the canvas. This is apparent in my early works like Red Cardinal (a huge red
cardinal head in a blue garden full of white flowers), or later, in my geometric Treehouse series.
Nowadays, my palettes change from series to series, where color is graduated from light to dark
and mixed in intricate intersection. The work is mostly in series that are content-driven around
core concepts.

Patterns that become visible on the canvas are deeply linked to my experiences in the world.
They include universal themes that have evolved from childhood memories, city life and travel
and nature. And from the many homes I have had away from home.

ABOUT Eveline Murphy Luppi
Eveline Murphy Luppi is an American painter who was born and raised in Pawtucket,
R.I. Her father was a railroad conductor and an active politician. When young, she was
active in her community and continues to be so as an advisory member of the City of
Pawtucket’s Art and Culture Commission. She has always been proud of the city she
comes from.

Throughout her adult life, Luppi has led a dual life between the contemporary art scenes in New York City and Rhode Island. She studied painting, sculpture, and printmaking at the Art Students League of New York. She has won many awards for her nationally exhibited paintings. Eveline is known for her complex, multi-layered, but accessible work, including compositions where line work is cleverly juxtaposed in geometric forms that are inventive with intuitive and entertaining use of color. Among
other things, her work is a life-long journey in pattern. She currently teaches abstract painting at the Providence Art Club.

See more work of Luppi here: https://www.evelineluppi.com/

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