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Laurie Lipton

About

Laurie Lipton was born in New York and has been drawing since the age of four. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennslyvania with a Fine Arts degree in drawing. Laurie has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany and France and has made her home in London since 1986.I wanted to learn to paint like the 17th century Flemish Masters, but no one could teach me. It was all abstract and conceptual art at my university, so I cut my classes and sat for hours in the library copying Durer, Memling and Van Eyck. I tried to teach myself how to paint in egg-tempera but constantly failed. Finally I developed a way of drawing that mimicked the technique by building up thousands of tiny lines to get a tone. It was an insane way to draw, and took a horrendous amout of time, but I was able to get the same kind of luminous detail that the Flemish painters had achieved.Diane Arbus was another of my inspirations, and her use of black and white (the color of ghosts, memory and madness) opened up a world of possibilities for me. … Read More

Location: Los Angeles
Website: http://www.laurielipton.com
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Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree: Carnegie-Mellon University1975: Das Deutsche Shauspielhaus, Hamburg, Germany1979: Gallery Nico Vandale, Bruges, Belgium1980: Gallery Siau, Amsterdam, Holland1981: The Cultural Centre, Kortryk, Belgium1982: Gallery Gheysens, Kortryk, Belgium1983: Gallery Siau, Amsterdam, Holland1984: Gallery Lieve Hemel, Amsterdam, Holland1985: Paris International Artfair, France1986: Bath Internantional Artfair, England1986: London International Artfair, England1987: The Waterman's Art Centre, London, England1988: Smith Gallery, London, England1989: Vorpal Gallery, New York, USA1990: Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, USA1991: Vorpal Gallery, New York, USA1993: Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, USA1994: Cultural Centre, La Zitelle, Venice, Italy1996: Raw Gallery, London, England1997: Waterfront Gallery, Ghent, Belgium1998: East West Gallery, London, England1998: Ministry of Pop Culture, curated by Henry Boxer, London England1998: 20th Century British Art Fair, London, England2000: East West Gallery, London, England2001: Private Worlds: Outsider & Visionary Artfair, London, England2002: Art of the Imagination, London, England2002: Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, USA2002: Observatori, Valencia, Spain2003: Unquiet Voices, Chamber of Pop Culture, London, England2003: Sleep of Reason- shown with Goya, Cervantes Institute, London, England2003: Gallery Muro, Valencia, Spain2004: Casa Decor, Valencia, Spain2005: Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, England2005: Day of the Dead, sponsored by the Mexican Embassy, London, England2006: Haunted House, Freud Museum, London, England2006: Art of Imagination, Giger Museum, Switzerland2006: Home & Beast, Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, USA2006: Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, USA, … Read More