There is this intangible moment you can feel when someone’s career is about to take off. With fine digital art and NFTs, it occurs at the nexus of their community of committed collectors, the artist’s distinctive style, and their ability to push limits. Mexico’s very own @CoupofGrace exemplifies these traits.
Just as Picasso painted true to life images in the late 1890s before settling on his movement shaping style, @CoupofGrace started his career as a traditional Mexican painter, who came into his own digitally through experimentation. “In this new space I can bring things to life that I’ve been working on for years and years in the physical space with twists that are my own,” he told me. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, Coup shared his approach to NFT creation and collaboration.
I asked, “how do you sit with a haunting image for weeks during artistic projects without being negatively impacted?” He replied, “by using beauty to purify the grotesque.”
In Coup’s, world beauty transcends all, and art comes to life between the figures and reveals inhabitable spaces. “For me,” Coup shared, “painting is about finding space to breathe in the canvas.”
I invite you to his body of NFT work: abstracts, the popular Skull studies and fine digital works with movement. His command of his craft, playful participation in the #NFTcommunity, and especially his ability to give us permission to look at the disturbing and find beauty there, make him an artist I will cherish & collect.
A Life of Wonder 
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