Artist Barry Kiperman

Barry Kiperman

About

THE TABLETOP SCHEMATICS

These schematics explore the mute persistence of signs, symbols, common objects and mundane forms that are so inexorably familiar and commonplace as to become part of our everyday visual vernacular. Removed from their normal context or function they become part of a new visual strategy.

One of the catalysts for these paintings came from an old red circular steel Coca-Cola sign that I rescued from the façade of a New York coffee shop slated for demolition. I did this not for its collectible, Americana appeal, but rather for its particular visual qualities. The sign was so clear and so forthright, so visually clean and established in its Egyptian like iconography – the green Coke bottle with its umber liquid against a red field – the white Coca Cola logo emblazoned across the center.

The objects that appear in the work, schematic line drawings of fans, violins, etc., do not subscribe to the fiction of abstract painting. They are reluctant participants, insisting upon their own self-contained, rigorous automony.

The paintings are executed on 1/4” plywood fastened to a table like support, edged with formica laminate and spray varnished. They have that quality of objecthood that Heidegger describes as “the thingness of the thing, the thing – being of the thing.”
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Location: Boston, United States
Website: http://www.barrykiperman.com

Education

SELECTED EXHIBITS
2006 Group Exhibit Large Scale Works, Boston Convention Center, Boston, MA
2003 OK Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
2002 AAF Art Expo, Michele Birnbaum Fine Art, New York, NY
2002 The Painting Center, New York, NY
2002Ceres Gallery, Curated by Charlotta Kotik of Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
2002Cambridge Art Association, Curated by Lisa Dennison of Guggenheim Museum, Cambridge, MA
2000 New Acquisitions Exhibit, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
2000 New York Armory Show, Works on Paper, Michele Birnbaum Fine Art, New York, NY
1999 Fuller Museum of Art, Triennial Exhibit, Brocton, MA
1998 Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
1994 Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
1994 11 Visions, 11 Artists, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1985 Centre Pieces: Sculpture from OK Harris, New York
Norton Center for the Arts, Danville, KY
1985 OK Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1979 Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
1979 University of Massachusetts-Boston, Boston, MA
1977 Light Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
1994 Painting DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1991 Painting Centre College, Danville, KY, Courtesy OK Harris Works of Art
1991 Painting Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL, Courtesy OK Harris Works of Art
1994 Painting Wellington Management Corporation, Boston, MA
1978 Photography International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

PUBLICATIONS
2009 Studio Visit, Juried Artist Catalog, Juror: Michael Klein, former Curator Microsoft Collection,
Open Studios Press
2003 New American Paintings, Juried Exhibition in Print, Juror: Charlotta Kotik, Curator Brooklyn
Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, Open Studios Press
2000 New American Paintings, Juried Exhibition in Print, Juror: Terrie Sultan, Curator Corcoran
Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Open Studios Press,

AWARDS/HONORS
2003 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship Grant
1981 MA Arts and Humanities Fellowship Grant
1967 Yale Fellowship Summer School of Music and Art

EDUCATION
BFA, Tufts University
Diploma, Boston Museum School of Fine Arts

IMAGES AVAILABLE
www.barrykiperman.com
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery

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