Lawrence Gipe
born: 1962 in Baltimore, Maryland
Lives in Santa Barbara, California
Lawrence Gipe's work derives from propaganda and other ideologically framed sources. His paintings and drawings are informed by images found in advertisements and posters, “fine art” photographs, and tourist ephemera published under the auspices of totalitarian/monolithic political movements (ranging from mid-1930’s Nazi, WPA, and Stalinist “Five-Year Plan” imagery to recent-day military recruiting and corporate web-based “motivational” materials.
Gipe began his career in Los Angeles with a series of exhibitions addressing the themes of industrialization, progress and ideological photography. He has had 38 solo exhibitions in US galleries and museums in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and, internationally in Munich, Berlin, and the Künstverein Düsseldorf.
His most recent solo exhibition runs from January 9 - February 10th, 2007 at Alexander Grey Associates in New York (www.alexandergrey.com). Entitled One Picture and the Next Three, Gipe re-represents four archival photographic images as oil paintings, continuing his strategy of severing historical images from their original, politically charged contexts.
A mid-career survey, “3 Five-Year Plans: Lawrence Gipe 1990-2005”, was organized last June by Marilyn Zeitlin at the University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona. In 2001, Gipe completed a mural commission for the lobby of the Federal Reserve Bank Headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, in a building designed by Robert A.A.Stern. He is an Assistant Professor of 2D Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson and he continues to teach art studio at University of California, Santa Barbara. He has been awarded numerous grants, including two NEA Fellowships in 1989 and 1995. Gipe has curated numerous exhibitions, the latest being “North x Northwest”, a group show of work by Santa Barbara artists.
Articles and reviews of Gipe’s works have appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, Art and Antiques, L.A. Weekly, Architectural Digest, Elle, The Los Angeles Times, Talk, ArtForum, ArtNews, Art in America , Flash Art, Village Voice, Time Out, Kunstforum and others.
Gipe’s work is collected by individuals and institutions all over the world including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida and the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York .
Lawrence Gipe
born 1962 in Balitimore, Maryland.
1984
BFA Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
1986
MFA Otis/Parsons Institute of Design, Los Angeles, California
Solo Exhibitions
2007
Alexander Grey Associates, New York, New York
“One Picture and the Next Three”
Randall Scott Gallery, Washington, DC.
2006
University Art Museum at Arizona State, Tempe, Arizona “3 Five-Year Plans: Lawrence Gipe, 1990-2005”
Bentley Projects, Phoenix, Arizona
"Zirkus und Varieté"
Ro Snell Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
"Zirkus und Varieté"
Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, California.
2004
Atelier Richard Tullis, Santa Barbara, California
“Lawrence Gipe: 1993-2003”
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
2003
Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, New York
“postDrawing”
2002
Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, California
“Amerika”
2001
Alan Koppel Gallery, Chigago, Illinois
“Leica throughout the World”
Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, New York
“Leica Woman”
1999
Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, New York
“The Last Picture Show”
Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1998
Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, New York
“20th Century Limited”
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1996
Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, New York
“Documentary Painting”
Kohn-Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Quartet Editions, New York, New York
Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, California
1995
Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, New York
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
1994
Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California
The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, California
1993
Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany
BlumHelman Gallery, New York, New York
“The Robert Moses Project (Text and Subtext)”
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, California
1992
BlumHelman Warehouse New York, New York
“The Century of Progress Museum”
Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich, Germany
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
1991
Shea and Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1990
Shea+Beker, New York, New York
“The Krupp Project”
Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1989
Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich, Germany
Amerika-Haus, Berlin, Germany
Hartje Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
1988
Laguna Art Museum
1987
Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1986
Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Recent Group Exhibitions
2006
Winston-Wächter Fine Art, New York, New York
Sliding Scale
Randall Scott Gallery, Washington, DC.
Zimmerli Print Archive of Rutger’s University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
2005
Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, New York
No Apologies for Breathing
Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, California
North x Northwest
Laurie Frank Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Work from Atelier Richard Tullis
Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Surfaced
2004
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Selections
Modenrism Gallery, San Francisco, California
25th Anniversary Show
Recent Bibliography
2006
Lawrence Gipe: Pick of the Week", L.A.Weekly, Dec 20.
2005
Leffingwell, Ed. “Allegories of Painting”, Art in America, (February).
2004
Frank, Peter. “Pick of the Week”, LA Weekly, (October 22)
Berkus, Carey. “Wit and Wisdom”, Santa Barbara Magazine, (November) 2003
Halperen, Max. "The Air Up There," Independent Weekly Durham,NC. (November 26) Foley, M. " Lawrence Gipe's Retrospective", Santa Barbara Independent (November 20) Maschal, R. "Images of Wonder," Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, NC. (November 9) Dougherty & Paschal. "The Possibility of Impossibility," essay from the exhibition "Defying Gravity", North Carolina Museum of Art. Jones, Caroline. Art in Culture ( Korea). (September 4) 2002
Leffingwell, Edward. “Lawrence Gipe at Joseph Helman”, Art in America, May. Levin, Kim. “Ghost Story”, The Village Voice, January. David, Lacy. “PostDrawing: Lawrence Gipe”, South Coast Beacon, December 26. Public Collections Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Indiana
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Federal Reserve Board Collection, Washington, D.C.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
University Art Museum, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
Yale University Library, Massachusetts
Zimmerli Archive, Rutgers University, Rutgers, New Jersey Grants and Commissions 1989
NEA Fellowship, Painting 1995
NEA Fellowship, Works on Paper 2001-2002
GSA Commission, Lobby, Federal Reserve Bank Headquarters, Atlanta, GA Other Activities 2004
Co-author of “Color Me Arnold: The Unofficial Arnold Schwarzenegger
Coloring and Activity Book” (with Conor Buckley); published by Manid D Press, San Francisco, California. 2001
Cover art for “One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train”, poetry by Michael Atkinson, published by Word Works Press, Washington, D.C. Art Critic/Essayist 1985-
Articles published in L.A.Weekly, Flash Art, Artweek, Visions, Santa Barbara Independent. Lecturer -“Art Making in the Age of Uncertainty”, a panel discussion moderated by Todd Gitlin w/Jeanne Silverthorne and Lawrence Gipe, ASU Art Museum Lecture Series. -Gipe has lectured on his work and/or other art related topics at the following institutions: UC Santa Barbara
University of Southern California
UC Los Angeles
Pasadena City College
CALArts
UC Long Beach
Claremont College
Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Chrysler Art Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
Kunstverein Dûsseldorf, Germany. Performance 2000
“Translations” by Daniel Wheeler; with Steve Roden and Joe Sturges. Teaching Experience 1986
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
-Teaching Assistant
LA High School for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
-Art Instructor 1987-88
Art Center, Pasadena, CA
-Studio Critique Seminar Instructor 1999-
Guest Lecturer, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
-Lower, Intermediate and Upper Division Painting
-Lower and Upper Division Drawing
-History of 20th Century Art (Lecture Course)
-Graduate Critique Seminar 2001-04
-Master Mentorship Program
Santa Barbara Museum of Art 2002
-Youth Mural Project
Santa Barbara Museum of Art 2003-
Guest Lecturer, CSUCI, Camarillo, CA
-Intermediate Painting and Technology
-Advanced Painting |
