Lora Schlesinger Gallery is delighted to present Lawrence Gipe’s eighth solo exhibition with the gallery, Where We Were, and How We Got There. Where We Were, and How We Got There is a modular mural drawing, currently 60’ long. It is composed of a series of 10’ triptychs composed of images culled from the artist’s vast archive of clippings documenting modern technology, propaganda, and epic industrial landscapes. In the work, Gipe creates a panoramic vista of undulating scenes that engages the visual rhetoric of capitalism and nostalgia, addressing their intertwined relationship in visual culture. The drawing is based on the length and proportions of the Apocalypse Tapestry in Angers, France, an artwork that has always impressed Gipe with its scope, deep symbolism and tragic power. In the exhibition, Gipe will also exhibit a small series of oil paintings on panel entitled “Nocturne”, which depicts romantic, “idealized” notions of urban environments. Lawrence Gipe’s art ranges from painting, drawing, and installations that address the visual rhetoric of power, authoritarianism, and technology. Past notable exhibitions include the Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany; BlumHelman Gallery, NYC; Alexander Gray Associates, NYC; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ (mid-career survey); Amerika-Haus, Berlin, Germany. He has been awarded two fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Where We Were and How We Got There (Sequence 2), 2015 graphite on Arches 42 -1/2 x 120-3/4" – paper size
Where We Were and How We Got There (Sequence 1), 2015 graphite on Arches 42 -1/2 x 116" – paper size
Where We Were and How We Got There (Sequence 3), 2015 graphite on Arches 42 -1/2 x 118" – paper size
Where We Were and How We Got There (Sequence 4), 2015 graphite on Arches 42 -1/2 x 119" – paper size
Where We Were and How We Got There (Sequence 5), 2015 graphite on Arches 42 -1/2 x 122" – paper size
Nocturne Study 1, 2015 oil on panel 24 x 18"
Nocturne Study 2, 2015 oil on panel 24 x 18"
Nocturne Study 3, 2015 oil on panel 24 x 18"
Nocturne Study 4, 2015 oil on panel 24 x 18"
Nocturne Study 5, 2015 oil on panel 24 x 18"
Nocturne Study 6, 2015 oil on panel 24 x 18"
Vilnius, 2014 oil on panel 30 x 40�
Panel No. 16 from Salon (Dresden,1958), 2012 oil on panel 9 x 12"
Panel No. 14 from Salon (Hamburg Station), 2012 oil on panel 9 x 12"
Nocturne Study 7, 2015 oil on panel 20 x 16"
Nocturne Study 8, 2015 oil on panel 40 x 30�
Bahnhof Study 2, 2015 oil on panel 24 x 18�
LAWRENCE GIPE BORN Baltimore, MD. 1962 EDUCATION BFA Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 1984 MFA Otis/Parsons Institute of Design, Los Angeles, CA, 1986 SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2015 2013 2011 2010
2008 2007 2006
2004
2003 2002 2001 1999 1998 1996
1995
Where We Were, and How We Got There, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Salon, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ 1962: New Paintings, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA Galerie Michael Heufelder, Munich, Germany MOCA Tucson, Tucson, AZ Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Randall Scott Gallery, Washington, DC Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY Three Five-year Plans: A Mid-career Retrospective, University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ Zirkus und Varieté , Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA Zirkus und Varieté ,Bentley Projects, Phoenix, Arizona Zirkus und Varieté, Ro Snell Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Algorithm: New Paintings and Banners,Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica,CA Laurence Gipe: 1993-2003, Atelier Richard Tullis, Santa Barbara, CA Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Post Drawing,Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY Amerika, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA Leica throughout the World, Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, IL Leica Woman, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY The Last Picture Show, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri 20th Century Limited, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA Documentary Painting, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY Kohn-Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Quartet Editions, New York, NY Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA "Approved Images", New Paintings, BlumHelman Gallery, New York, NY
1994
1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986
Selections from The Century of Progress Museum, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica,CA The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA Montage Paintings, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany The Robert Moses Project (Text and Subtext), BlumHelman Gallery, New York, NY Selections from The Century of Progress Museum, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco The Century of Progress Museum, BlumHelman Warehouse, New York, NY The Propaganda Series, Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich, Germany Lawrence Gipe: Century of Progress, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA Futurama, Shea and Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, CA The Krupp Project, Shea+Beker, New York, NY Themes for a Fin de Siecle, Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich, Germany Amerika-Haus, Berlin, Germany Hartje Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 2012 2010
2009
2008
2007 2006 2005
Group Show, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Gallery Artists, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Architecture Digested, El Camino College, Torrance, CA Summer Group Show, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Small Paintings Group Show, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA In the Valles de Los Caidos, Primary Projects Space, Miami, Fl. Real and Hyper-Real, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA Made in Tucson, Tucson MOCA, Tucson, AZ Selections from the Permanent Collection, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ Gallery Artists, Summer, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA Forms and Symbols, University Art Museum, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA Return to Painting, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA Draw The Line, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Passione: Group Show, Galerie Michael Heufelder, Munich, Germany Arizona Biennial, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ New York, New York, Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL. Dimitri Kozyrev / Tim Siquin / Lawrence Gipe, Park Ave. Projects, Tucson, AZ Summer in Chelsea, Winston-Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY Drawn, MOCA Tucson, Tucson, AZ Paper Beings, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA Arizona Biennial, Tucson Museum of Art, AZ Winston-Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA Im(press)ions: Contemporary prints, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Santa Barbara, CA No Fancy Titles, Randal Scott Gallery, Washington, DC Sliding Scale, Winston-Wachter Fine Art, NY Zimmerli Printmaking Archive of Rutger’s University, New Brunswick, NJ No Apologies for Breathing, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, New York North by Northwest, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA Work from Atelier Richard Tullis, Laurie Frank Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2004 2003 2002 2001
2000
Surfaced, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri Selections , San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California 25th Anniversary Show, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, California Defying Gravity, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC Contemporary Narratives: Lawrence Gipe, Carrie Mae Weems, Julie Heffernan, John Walker, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Acquisitions from the Tullis Workshop, University Art Museum, University of Southern California, Santa Barbara, CA Diabolical Beauty: Lawrence Gipe, David Levinthal, Dinh Q. Lee, etc. Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA American Images:Lawrence Gipe, Robert Frank, Ed Ruscha, Vik Muniz, Andy Warhol,etc. Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, IL Private to Public: Gifts from the Norton Foundation Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
GRANTS & COMMISSIONS 2001 1995 1989
GSA Commission, Federal Reserve Bank Headquarters, Atlanta, GA NEA Fellowship, Works on Paper NEA Fellowship, Painting
BIBLIOGRAPHY 1983
The Last Juried Show, (exhibition catalogue) Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Museum of Fine Art, 1983
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1999
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2002
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2003
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 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