Laurie Lipton

Laurie Lipton was born in New York and has been drawing since the age of four. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University with a Fine Arts degree in drawing. Laurie has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany and France, London & currently resides in LA .

Lipton wanted to learn to paint like the 17th century Flemish Masters, but only abstract and conceptual art was taught at schools. She cut her classes and sat for hours in the library copying Durer, Memling and Van Eyck. She tried to teach herself to paint in egg-tempera but failed. Finally she developed a unique way of drawing that mimicked the technique by building thousands of tiny lines to get a tone. It was an insane way to draw, and took a horrendous amount of time, but was able to get the same kind of luminous detail that the Flemish painters had achieved.

To see the award winning documentary of Lipton's lifelong obsession with drawing, click on: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/lovebite

The first person to graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University with a Major in Drawing (with Honors): Bachelor of Fine Arts, Carnegie-Mellon University1975

PUBLICATIONS (highlights):
2002 Nov/Dec: "JUXTAPOZ", art magazine, USA
2009 "The Extraordinary Drawings of Laurie Lipton", beinArt Publications, Melbourne, Australia
2012 "The Women of the Underground: Cultural Innovators Speak for Themselves", Manic D Press, San Francisco, USA
2013 "The Drawings of Laurie Lipton", Last Gasp Publications, San Francisco, USA
2013 "Outside The Lines", Penguin, NY, USA
2014 "Hearsay: Artists Reveal Urban Legends", Cal State University Press, USA

RESIDENCIES
2006: October: Artist in Residence, Rowan Arts Project, North London Borough of Archway, London, UK
2010: April-May: Artist in Residence, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA, USA
LECTURES
2011: Feb24-Feb 26: "Carnival of Death: Perceptions of Death in Europe & the Americas", Senate House, University of London, UK
2014: Aug. 7: "Ensor & The Artists: lecture & panel discussion", J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

EXHIBITIONS (highlights)
1988: Nov-Dec: The Vorpal Gallery, NY, NY, USA
1989: Oct,: The Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
1996: Sept 25-29, 20th: Century British Art Fair, Henry Boxer Gallery, London, UK
1998: Nov 13- Dec 5: "Remote Control", The Chamber of Pop Culture, London, UK
2002: April 27-June30...