A Great Painter and Kind Man: Lupo Sol

Lupo Sol: Party 2016. Oil on cardboard, 50 x 50"

I like to work with other painters from time to time. When I focus on a particular artist, and we become acquainted, I tend to take our relationship to a kind of extreme. I want to promote his or her work to all and sundry, which can be done easily on social media, but I’m talking about the next step here—to handle their work “in the flesh”, to pay them to deliver it to you, to frame the pieces, find a gallery (or make your home into one), and exhibit the work at no cost to the painters, and letting them keep 100% of the profits from sales because only a fool loves the crazy of anti-business.

I say, “How much you want for that?”, I’m goin’ to the store
Man says, "Three dollars", "All right", I say, “Will you take four?”

—from “Poor Boy” by Bob Dylan

Private lessons in camaraderie. Friendships to build upon. Only so much time left in a life to do something good...

At present, Lupo Sol is one of the most underrated painters working on the planet. I stumbled upon his genius on the Stuckist Facebook page back in 2016.

My wife gifted me one of his paintings that Christmas, and the following year I had 26 of his pieces leaning against the walls in my house, framed and ready for an exhibition. I found the willing gallery in Hamilton, NY—a college town nestled between sleepy cows and fields of high fructose corn syrup ingredients. I began promotion and from request to opening night, Lupo had his first exhibition in the United States in less than two months time.

His Bio:

A promotional video:

A song I wrote and recorded to promote:

The exhibition:

And some recent paintings. Thumbnails, so you'll visit his site: