Laurie Lipton
Laurie Lipton was born in New York and began drawing at the age of four. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honours). She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany, France and London, and has made her home in Los Angeles since 2011. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA.
Lipton was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School. She tried to teach herself how to paint in the style of the 16th century Dutch Masters and failed. When traveling around Europe as a student, she began developing her very own peculiar drawing technique, building up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines like an egg tempera painting. “It’s an insane way to draw”, she says, “but the resulting detail and luminosity is worth the amount of effort. My drawings take longer to create than a painting of equal size and detail.”
“It was all abstract and conceptual art when I attended university. My teachers told me that figurative art went ‘out’ in the Middle Ages and that I should express myself using form and shapes, but splashes on canvas and rocks on the floor bored me. I knew what I wanted: I wanted to create something no one had ever seen before, something that was brewing in the back of my brain. I used to sit for hours in the library copying Durer, Memling, Van Eyck, Goya and Rembrandt. The photographer, Diane Arbus, was another of my inspirations. Her use of black and white hit me at the core of my Being. Black and white is the color of ancient photographs and old TV shows… it is the color of ghosts, longing, time passing, memory, and madness. Black and white ached. I realized that it was perfect for the imagery in my work.”
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New Print Release
“AMERICA IS A GUN”
Published by Bert Green Fine Art and printed in Los Angeles at Big Brother Publishing / Modern Multiples.
Archival pigment print on Moab Entrada Bright White 300 gsm paper.
Paper 23 x 31”, image 21.35 x 30”
Edition of 65
$450
Digital Open Edition Prints
Augmental
Digital Print
Open Edition
Signed by the Artist
Paper 17 x 13", image 15.16 x 12"
2020
Published by BGFA
$100
Democracy
Digital Print
Open Edition
Signed by the Artist
Paper 13 x 18", image 11.5 x 14.5"
2020
Published by BGFA
$100
The Fourth Horseman
Digital Print
Open Edition
Signed by the Artist
Paper 18 x 13", image 15.875 x 12"
2020
Published by BGFA
$100
The 4th Horsie of the Apocalypse
Digital Print
Open Edition
Signed by the Artist
Paper 13 x 16”, image 11.625 x 14.75"
2019
Published by BGFA
$100
Delusion Dwellers
Digital Print
Open Edition
Signed by the Artist
Paper 13 x 16”, image 11.625 x 14.75"
2019
Published by BGFA
$100
Museum-quality Limited Edition Lithographic Prints
Default Setting
3 Plate Lithograph (Duotone)
Edition of 20
Signed and numbered by the artist
Paper 18 x 21.375”, Image 15.5 x 19.375"
2018
Published by BGFA
Default Setting is concerned with the complex nature of social media and its effect on the public discourse. This is one of a series of works that look at the distorting effects of technology on communication, beliefs and assumptions.
$800
Personal Effects (The Great Wave)
3 Plate Lithograph (Duotone)
Edition of 20
Signed and numbered by the artist
Paper 18 x 24.5”, Image 14 x 21.13”
2017
Published by BGFA
Inspired by Katsushika Hokusai's "Wave", this image is a contemporary take on the Pacific Gyre, a mass of floating plastic in the middle of the Pacific, estimated to be larger in area than the State of Texas.
$800
Round and Round
3 Plate Lithograph (Duotone)
Edition of 20
Signed and numbered by the artist
Paper 18.13 x 23.5" Image 13.75 x 19.5"
2014
Published by BGFA
The image was conceived shortly after the artist's arrival in Los Angeles; an initial impression of the ubiquitous car culture mentality of many of the city's inhabitants.
$800
Three Print Litho Package
All three Laurie Lipton lithographs: Default Setting, Personal Effects (The Great Wave), Round and Round
Signed and Numbered by the artist
(Regular price $2400)
$2,000
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Original Works
LOL
Graphite on Paper
Paper 25 x 34”, Frame 36 x 45”
2015
Price on Request
Democracy
Charcoal & Graphite on Paper
Paper 28 x 34.5, Frame 39 x 46”
2012
Price on Request
The Consumption
Charcoal & Graphite on Paper
Paper 39 x 28”, Frame 50.25 x 39.25”
2011
Price on Request
Permanent
Charcoal & Graphite on Paper
Paper 52.5 x 23", Frame 64 x 34.75”
2009
Price on Request
The 4th Horseman
Charcoal & Graphite on Paper
Paper 39 x 29", Frame 50 x 40.75”
2005
Price on Request
