Lawrence Gipe
BFA Virginia Commonwealth University; MFA Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, 1962
Lawrence Gipe’s practice engages environmentalism and the visual rhetoric of epic landscape, in media that ranges between painting, drawing, video and collaborative installations. He has had 58 solo exhibitions in galleries and museums in New York, Beijing, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Munich, Berlin, Düsseldorf (Kunstverein Düsseldorf). He is currently represented by William Turner Gallery in Los Angeles.
Gipe has received two NEA Individual Fellowship Grants (Painting, 1989 and Works on Paper, 1996). A mid-career survey, 3 Five-Year Plans: Lawrence Gipe, 1990-2005, was organized in 2006 by Marilyn Zeitlin at the University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona. In 2001, Gipe executed a mural commission for the lobby of the Federal Reserve Bank Headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Recently, Gipe had solo shows at William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2022), Tsinghua Academy of Arts, Beijing, PRC (2019), and the Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2018). Recent group exhibitions: "Phenomena: Art and Science Collide" at William Turner Gallery (2024), "Reflections on Our Warming Planet", Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA and LA Artcore (2023-4), "Summer 2022: Highlights from the Permanent Collection", Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL. Gipe's work can be seen currently as part of the permanent collection of the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ. Public collections include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Block Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Federal Reserve Board Collection, High Museum of Art, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Norton Museum of Art, and many more. Gipe was a Creative Research Fellow at the Wolfsonian/Florida International University, Miami, FL (2024). Articles and reviews about his work have appeared in Vanity Fair, Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, L.A. Weekly, The Washington Post Magazine, Juxtapoz, Architectural Digest, Elle, The Los Angeles Times and many others.
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