The Stereoil Process (ST.P.) is a series of stereoview and stereoil paintings and drawings created from Michael Kupka's original stereoview photographs. Stereoview paintings have been seen at the Boston Museum of Science, the Museum of Holography, New York City. Other galleries in Canada and the U.S. have shown more comprehensive shows. With the exception of Canadian Art Gallery, Calgary, all show have been non-commercial with informative (educational) aspects.
The STart Chart List has all the data (Codes, Titles, Sizes, Dates, Styles and Venues). List of Exhibitions.
The Stereoil series MAP of Styles
How is a Stereoil created
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ST.P.- Stereoil Processing - Conceptual art project consisting of the following six subsections of photos and/or slides, drawings and paintings in two "styles".

ST.V.- StereoView Photos, slides - The first three years (1973-1976) of pictures were done with Pentax splitter mirrors for a 35mm. camera, 1976-Realist f/28, about 1980- Macro Realist, and 1982- twin semi-manual Canon T-70's with spliced electronic cable releases.
Pre-Millennium Stereoviews
Stereoviews - 2000 +

ST.O.-StereOil Photos - "Sandwiched" stereoviews. The term "oil" used throughout the Process relates to both the oil in painting and the moiré created by the superimposition of the stereoview information.
Pre-Millennium Stereoil
Stereoil - 2000 +

ST.V.D. - StereoView Drawings - Done from stereoview photos.

ST.V.P. - StereoView Paintings - Done from stereoview photos.

ST.O.D. - StereOil Drawings - Done from "Stereoil" photos.

ST.O.P. - Stereoil Paintings - Done from "Stereoil" photos

DT- DipTychs, - Either Pentax pictures cut in half or separate Realist stereoviews are presented Cross-eyed (Cross viewing) while those that are connected in the middle (Penatax) are Wall-eyed (Parallel viewing).

"It should be noted that within each subsection of the process, each subject can be expected to result in a different substructural pattern; and no subsection is as important as the process taken as a whole." Which is why the series is being sold as a whole.

All the drawings and paintings resemble the original photographs; that is, I was true to the original with the exceptions of the first Stereoil "Green Peace Pipe Dream" and the last stereoview diptych "Space Shuffle on 3-D TV" MWK.

Quoted article by ©Justin Seward
(editor, The Double Standard copyright 1996) Arts West 4/'76

  "Stereoil, to date, is the name given to the final product in a process extending stereoview slides. The Stereoil concept originated in Vancouver, BC, in 1973, as an investigation into the possibility of painting with both eyes open. The artist, Michael Kupka, was born in 1950 in Edmonton, Alberta. He attended the Alberta College of Art in Calgary in 1969 - 70. At this time he found the avant-garde photorealism too cold, while the traditional medium was too fluid and indefinitive. Three years of experimentation ended with the discovery of a cybernetic picture; due to the intrinsic mechanics of the system, it provided the young artist with a new definition of focus. At the same time it provided abstract and realistic terms on one surface. "All Stereoils are similar in the effect and to the effect that they are generated from information stored in stereoview photos. At one point in the final painting there is one point of zero disparity: the one point on which both eyes are focused. At the extremes, disparity occurs as a split image, a double, or a duplicate, creating a transparency in turn creating moireé when seen at a distance."