Laura Hipke

b 1958, Laura Hipke is a Los Angeles based artist and curator. Thematically, Laura explores the interiors of the heart and what it means to be human. Her work includes painting and printmaking, as well as ongoing projects that require the input of strangers . Laura has been described as an intuitive. She is self-taught, except for briefly attending California Institute of the Arts when she was sixteen.

The Circle of Truth Project - Curated by Laura Hipke and Shane Guffogg

A traveling exhibition next opening August 10th - October 20th, 2019 in Lancaster California at MOAH

Ed Ruscha, Shane Guffogg, Billy Al Bengston, Lita Albuquerque, Jim Morphesis, Charles Arnoldi, Robert Williams, Ruth Weisberg and 41 other artists created works especially for the Circle of Truth project, in secret over a period of nine years.

The Circle of Truth Project

The Circle of Truth is a wholly unique “collaboration” of 49 contemporary artists, each sequestered and unknown to one another, working in absolute secrecy. Taking a full nine years from launch to fruition, The Circle of Truth is a modern, visual take on a common childhood classroom exercise, wherein a secret message was whispered from student to student. Often referred to as the Rumor Circle, or the Telephone Game.

In the case of the Circle of Truth, the first painting, created by co-curator, Shane Guffogg, was delivered, along with a blank canvas, to the second artist in the Circle , the second artist was not given the identity of the first artist. Her only instructions were to find "Truth" in the first painting and then use the blank canvas to create a work of art in response....