Lawrence Gipe

Lawrence Gipe (born 1962 in Baltimore, Maryland), is an American painter. He is currently an assistant professor in 2D studies at the University of Arizona.

Gipe derives his paintings from an “irredeemable” image pool of ideological photographs. Since the 1980s, every work has come from an archive of propaganda tracts, social realist photography books and other art “approved” by politically driven authorities. Appropriating imagery from photo journals and magazines from the 1930s to the 1970s, his paintings translate small black and white images into large, visually seductive color works. Radically severed from their original contexts, the intention is for these reinterpretations to actively force the spectator to reconstruct the images' ideological significance.

He has exhibited internationally, including solo museum exhibitions at the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Amerika-Haus, Berlin; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA; Kunstverein Düsseldorf; and The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA. His work is in numerous public collections, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Yale University Library, Zimmerli Archive-Rutgers University, Boise Art Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach. He was a champion the game show Tic Tac Dough in 1985.

Solo exhibitions
  • 1986 Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 1987 Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 1988 Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
  • 1989 Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich, Germany
  • 1989 America Haus, Berlin, Germany
  • 1989 Hartje Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany
  • 1990 Shea&Beker Gallery, New York, New York
  • 1990 Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 1991 Shea&Beker Gallery, New York, New York
  • 1992 Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, New York
  • 1992 Blum Helman Gallery, New York, New York
  • 1992 Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich, Germany
  • 1992 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
  • 1993 Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, New York
  • 1993 Food House, Santa Monica, CA
  • 1993 Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 1993 Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany
  • 1994 Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 1994 The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
  • 1996 Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1996 Kohn-Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • 1996 Quartet Editions, New York, NY
  • 1996 Hunsaker Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
  • 1998 Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1998 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
  • 1999 Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2001 Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • 2001 Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2003 Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2006 Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ
  • 2006 University Art Museum at Arizona State, Tempe, AZ (mid-career survey)
  • 2007 Alexander Gray Associates, NY
  • 2007 Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
  • 2008 Randall Scott Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2010 Galerie Michael Heufelder, Munich, Germany
  • 2010 Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • 2018 Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

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