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God’s Favorite Mouse, acrylic on canvas, 2009, 54 x 60 inches.

John Copeland is a masterly artist who’s as comfortable scribbling up a few amusing doodles in pencil on a napkin as he is detailing sweeping scenes with brushes and puddles of oils on a 12-foot canvas. Six days a week, year-round, Copeland toils away hermitlike in his painting studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and, much like God, rests only on the Sabbath to screw around with his motorcycles. Here is a small sampling of what comes of it.

John is exhibiting at London’s Zoo Art Fair in October and he has a solo show at V1 Gallery in Copenhagen in February. Lucky you, Copenhagen.

You Are the Wind Beneath, 2009, graphite and colored pencil on paper, 25 x 21 inches.

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	lazy eyez killa, on Sep 3, 2009 wrote: quite a contrast in his graphite and paintings.
Anonymous, on Sep 2, 2009 wrote: the titles to all of these drawings are great. obscure yet loosely sensical
Anonymous, on Sep 2, 2009 wrote: @tinkerer probably. marge is kind of slutty
	catbird, on Sep 1, 2009 wrote: these are so cool!
Anonymous, on Aug 31, 2009 wrote: I saw his show in Chelsea, his work is good and he makes a lot of it. This guy is there.
	shep, on Aug 31, 2009 wrote: maybe tv stations should use things like that to censor. instead of black bars or blurs we could have smiley faces and pink teddy bears and shit.
Anonymous, on Aug 31, 2009 wrote: he calls that "detailing?" ha. no, really though, i love this. but i don’t think his stuff and "detailed" really go togethere.
Anonymous, on Aug 31, 2009 wrote: I love graphite. Not enough artists use it. Look at the lines! Awesome.
Anonymous, on Aug 31, 2009 wrote: anyone have any idea what he’s supposed to be playing with? looks like a book to me.
	tinkerer, on Aug 31, 2009 wrote: is mickey getting head from marge simpson?
Anonymous, on Aug 31, 2009 wrote: smiling shit bubbles. who’s got the chocolate pudding?
	The Max, on Aug 31, 2009 wrote: Nick Gazin copied what from what? This doesn’t look like Gazin’s stuff at all.
Anonymous, on Aug 31, 2009 wrote: I WONDER IF NICK GAZIN COPIED THIS IMAGE A LITTLE BIT.... EH?
Anonymous, on Aug 28, 2009 wrote: i wonder if she farted out all those balloons. gross
Anonymous, on Aug 26, 2009 wrote: is that one mickey mouse dude forcing the other one to give him a bj? kinky.
Anonymous, on Aug 26, 2009 wrote: Just once I’d like art/photo detractors to submit a link to their own work. Just once.
Anonymous, on Aug 25, 2009 wrote: lame.
	kennyp, on Aug 25, 2009 wrote: hehe, her anus is a smily face
	thedon, on Aug 25, 2009 wrote: i think gods favorite mouse is tom. he gets way with everything!
Anonymous, on Aug 25, 2009 wrote: shit
Anonymous, on Aug 24, 2009 wrote: is that like a micky mouse orgy or what?
	hi fructose, on Aug 24, 2009 wrote: don’t you know god loves all mice equally?
Anonymous, on Aug 24, 2009 wrote: it seems like he literally uses pounds of paint on those.
Anonymous, on Aug 20, 2009 wrote: i want to be involved in a mickey mouse orgy, smashing minnie is a dream
Anonymous, on Aug 20, 2009 wrote: ah balloon vaginas, is there nothing the art world wont cover up. at least its smiling.
Anonymous, on Aug 18, 2009 wrote: It’s a smiley face balloon and there is a nail on the left. Watch out!
	bum tickler, on Aug 18, 2009 wrote: am i crazy or is that a mouse threesome going on in the first one?
Anonymous, on Aug 17, 2009 wrote: the second two picture are a little more tasteful...I can kind of take him seriously now
Anonymous, on Aug 17, 2009 wrote: is that a smiley face coming out of her asshole?
Anonymous, on Aug 14, 2009 wrote: mickey mouse ears. how artsy
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