Artists : Aaron Straup Cope
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Aaron Straup Cope is Canadian by birth, American by descent, North American by experience et Montréalais au fond. Aaron spent five years as a senior engineer at Flickr, focusing on all things mobile, geo and “machine tag” related, before leaving to join Stamen Design in 2009. Once upon a time, he was still a painter. Aaron does not normally speak in the third person.

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Education: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (one late term-paper short of a BFA)
Personal Website: http://www.aaronstraupcope.com
From: Montreal. I seem to hop-scotch in and out of the city every five or six years, but no matter where I happen to be living, Montreal is the only place that feels like home.
Artists who inspire you: Richard Diebenkorn, post "Ab-Ex." I was inclined to hate all of his work until I finally saw one of the Ocean Park series in the flesh and I've been in love with his paintings ever since. Eventually, I moved to California where you can see "diebenskies" looking out your kitchen window in the morning and it all made sense.
Favorite Museum: The Rothko Room at the Tate Modern; John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo at the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum; Bernini's The Ecstasy of St. Teresa in Rome.