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Michael Coppage

Listen as Michael Coppage and Russell Ihrig explore relationships between Coppage’s mixed-media work, House of My Dreams, and Edward Hopper’s painting, Sun on Prospect Street (Gloucester, Massachusetts).

 

Michael Coppage's House of My Dreams, a black and white American flag with a rectangle of gold starts surrounding a print of the U.S. Capitol building in the top left corner. the words "House of my dreams" in bold, golden lettering are written in between the stripes on the right side

Michael Coppage (b. 1978), United States, House of My Dreams, 2020, printed nylon, gold leaf, applique, courtesy of the artist, © Michael Coppage. Photograph: Rob Deslongchamps.

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Edward Hopper's Son on Prospect Street, a painting of a suburban street with a row of houses on the left curving off into the distance. An old car is parked across the street against the curb

Edward Hopper (1882–1967), United States, Sun on Prospect Street (Gloucester, Massachusetts), 1934, oil on canvas, The Edwin and Virginia Irwin Memorial, 1959.49

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Originally from Chicago, Michael Coppage has lived and worked in Cincinnati since 2007. Coppage has recently been featured in print and online after participating in the Cincinnati’s Black Lives Matter mural and for receiving hate mail for a controversial and provocative series entitled American +, where he depicts white Americans as monkeys in uncomfortable scenarios with black men. His work addresses the appropriation of African American culture, demonization of black men and what he calls the “systematic” destabilization of black people in America. 

 

Submitted September 2020

Photo: Prosper Jones