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Weapons of Mass Delusions
Artist-in-Residence: Laurie Lipton May 1 - June 13, 2010 www.laurielipton.com | see press |
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Grand Central Art Central is proud to host London-based artist, Laurie Lipton as its forty-third artist-in-residence. Lipton grew up in New York and graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing. She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany, and France before making London her home. Although she attended a renowned university to study art, she considers herself to be self-taught. In lieu of her classes, Lipton spent hours in the library copying Durer, Memling, and Van Eyck developing her own cross-hatching technique, building layers of charcoal and pencil, to create the same luminous quality of 17th century Masters. Lipton's work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the United States. Weapons of Mass Delusions will be Lipton's first solo exhibition on the west coast. Inspired by the religious paintings of Flemish Masters and the photography of Diane Arbus, Lipton's dramatic black and white images are haunting yet satirical focusing on themes of fear, sexuality, mayhem, greed, and indifference. I was watching the Iraq war on CNN while eating my dinner. I chewed contentedly as peoples' homes and limbs were being blown apart. There was a commercial break about washing powder and new cars, then I was transported back to the bombing, the screaming women, the blood. The whole scenario suddenly struck me as obscene. How is this possible? I am comfortably eating a meal in my own home while watching horrible suffering. This is "normal" TV viewing. I am not even being put off my food. --Laurie Lipton *On Saturday, May 1, Downtown Santa Ana is hosting a Cinco de Mayo Festival and parking that day will be $5.00. |
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