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

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