The Corridor Project

The Corridor Project Billboard Exhibition. Modeled after the successful Billboard Creative in Los Angeles and Sonora 128 in Mexico City, this sky-high exhibition featured the artwork of 30 artists from regions along the I4 corridor in Florida. The Downtown Arts District (DAD) worked in conjunction with the curator and founder of The Corridor Project, Pat Greene, to select artists and artwork for this exhibition.

(The neighboring billboards offer the artists a humbling reminder not to take themselves too seriously.)

Luper’s work for this project was a 4 foot by 8 foot acrylic painting on canvas. The imagery is a patchwork of photographs Luper took in his explorations of his Florida environment. Dissolved beach scenery and condos overlap bodies and sea oats while golden flags move in the wind among strange rectangles scattered across the canvas.

This piece was completed over a two year period and was the culmination of a series of paintings done during quarantine. The title of the work includes a short poem intended to give the viewer another path into the painting. The poem combines the language of the romantics with a reference to the imagists poets and makes a modernist move from the personal to a broader statement about the collective “we”, leaving the viewer with something to meditate on while they step back and view the painting. This combination of different writing styles and time periods mimics the collage-like aspect of Luper’s paintings and process and offers yet another layer to his already heavily layered work.

Water Mural

The apparition of our bodies on the beach:

flamingo architecture on a wet, green sea.

Parking lot flags flapping in a warm, gold breeze.

In the sand is everything we have ever been.

Acrylic on Canvas

96” x 48”