Gabriel Lipper

I love to paint. I’ve been blessed by timing. To be alive right now for this chapter in arts history is a phenomenal gift. Classicism, once pronounced “dead” is reemerging with a new contemporary vitality. The gifts of modernism: color, form, and abstraction, are now being seamlessly integrated with the craftsmanship and techniques of the past. How wonderful to have so much wealth at my fingertips!

– Gabriel Mark Lipper

Two of Gabriel Lipper’s current series of paintings Urban Legend and Thoroughbred examine the Dionysian beauty and indulgent luxury of contemporary culture. “I host cocktail parties and paint the people who show up,” says Lipper. His ability to “paint the people who show up,” translates into brilliant paintings filled with lush color and strong brushwork, creating evocative moods. Lipper’s figures are beautifully rendered with strong light and confident form, a nod to his academic background, while his compositions and subjects are anything but academic. His paintings seduce viewers into an opulent world. Searching eyes and empty glasses engage us while others stay lost in their own introspection. The backgrounds dance with heavy impasto paint and heady color. His narrative subjects exist in an environmen...

Bilmes School of Art – 1993 – 1995

Harley Brown Studio-1999, 2005

Shozo Sato Studio-2001

Travel:

Japan Study – 1992

European Adventure Study – 1998
Belgium, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Italy, Greece, Turkey

Studies of New York – 2001

Mexican painting trip – 2002

Tuscan Adventure Study – 2003

Coastal Italy – 2005

Jordan Valley, OR – 2006

British Virgin Islands – 2008

Panama Adventure Study – 2008

Italian Adventure Study – 2015

Gallery Élan – Jacksonville, OR Current

Hanson Howard Gallery – Ashland, OR Current

The Rymer Gallery – Nashville, TN Current

Portland Art Museum – Portland, OR 1992

1201 Club – Portland, OR 1996

Bluebird Gallery- Medford, OR 1997

Davis & Cline Gallery- Ashland, OR 1998

Alto Gallery- Ashland, OR 2001

Grants Pass Museum of Art- Grants Pass, OR 2002

Waterhouse Gallery- Santa Barbara, CA 2003-2006

New Masters Gallery- Carmel, CA 2003-2006

Gallery Élan – Jacksonville, OR 2006

Goldsmith Blocks / Fine Art Inside Out – Portland, OR 2009