Artist Laurie Lipton

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

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree: Carnegie-Mellon University
1975: Das Deutsche Shauspielhaus, Hamburg, Germany
1979: Gallery Nico Vandale, Bruges, Belgium
1980: Gallery Siau, Amsterdam, Holland
1981: The Cultural Centre, Kortryk, Belgium
1982: Gallery Gheysens, Kortryk, Belgium
1983: Gallery Siau, Amsterdam, Holland
1984: Gallery Lieve Hemel, Amsterdam, Holland
1985: Paris International Artfair, France
1986: Bath Internantional Artfair, England
1986: London International Artfair, England
1987: The Waterman's Art Centre, London, England
1988: Smith Gallery, London, England
1989: Vorpal Gallery, New York, USA
1990: Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1991: Vorpal Gallery, New York, USA
1993: Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1994: Cultural Centre, La Zitelle, Venice, Italy
1996: Raw Gallery, London, England
1997: Waterfront Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
1998: East West Gallery, London, England
1998: Ministry of Pop Culture, curated by Henry Boxer, London England
1998: 20th Century British Art Fair, London, England
2000: East West Gallery, London, England
2001: Private Worlds: Outsider & Visionary Artfair, London, England
2002: Art of the Imagination, London, England
2002: Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, USA
2002: Observatori, Valencia, Spain
2003: Unquiet Voices, Chamber of Pop Culture, London, England
2003: Sleep of Reason- shown with Goya, Cervantes Institute, London, England
2003: Gallery Muro, Valencia, Spain
2004: Casa Decor, Valencia, Spain
2005: Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, England
2005: Day of the Dead, sponsored by the Mexican Embassy, London, England
2006: Haunted House, Freud Museum, London, England
2006: Art of Imagination, Giger Museum, Switzerland
2006: Home & Beast, Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, USA
2006: Micaela Gallery, San Francisco, USA
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