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Sam Lipp

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Sam Lipp

b. 1989

Lives and works in New York

 

 

Sam Lipp’s paintings commit ready-made pictures and the artist’s own photographs to painstaking recreations using a unique process of additive color applied with steel wool. Encompassing directive street signs, Michael Jackson’s transformed face, sexual domination, and sites of civic ordinance, Lipp’s source material exists at the intersection of the body and power. In Lipp’s additive and highly tangible paint application, pin-sized dots of impasto accumulate to create nuanced hues, establishing concrete analogs to fugitive virtual signs. The resulting works are both highly tactile paintings and direct references to the mechanics of screen culture; at once obfuscated by a dappled fog and rigorously precise. Through these effects, the artist underscores the power of visual culture to govern our lived experience, linking pictures and control.

 

 

EDUCATION

 

2011Bachelors of Fine Art, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2010Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, UK

 

 

SELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

 

2022Leaving the Factory, Derosia, New York, NY
2019Incest, Bonny Poon, Paris, France
2017Apologia, Mackey Apartments, Los Angeles, CA
2016Bodega (Derosia), New York, NY 
2015

Abandonment, Central Fine, Miami, FL

I’m An American Citizen, I Know My Rights, Neochrome, Turin, Italy

2014

Feeling Languid, Malraux’s Place, New York (with Luis Miguel Bendaña) 

My Hamster Cage, Bodega (Derosia), New York, NY

We, Free Paarking, St. Louis, MO

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023On Failure, Soft Opening, London, United Kingdom
2021This Is My Bodys, Bodega (Derosia), New York, NY
2019

Civic Duty, Cell Project Space, London, United Kingdom

Stay Gold, The Meeting, New York, NY

Michael Jackson: On the Wall, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland

Michael Jackson: On the Wall, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany

2018

Michael Jackson: On the Wall, Grand Palais, Paris, France

Michael Jackson: On the Wall, National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom 

2017

Loneliness of Leaders, Bonny Poon, Paris, France 

In the hopes of not being considered, curated by Nick Morgan, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY

Stars, Weekends, Paris, France

2016

Aunt Nancy, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

Face to Face, Selections from the Ernesto Esposito Collection, Palazzo Fruiscione, Salerno, Italy

2015

Great Depression, Balice Hertling, Paris, France

Playtime, 9800 Sepulveda, Los Angeles, CA

System of a Down, Ellis King, Dublin, Ireland

Where the Awning Flaps, Galerie Éric Hussenot, Paris, France

Soft Pillow, Arcadia Missa, London, United Kingdom

Green, organized by Puppies Puppies, What Pipeline, MI

2014

Murder, She Wrote, Nosbaum Reding Projects, Luxembourg

Buying Friends: The Kortman Collection, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI

Degeneration of Painting, Fondazione107, Turin, Italy


 

SELECTED PRESS

Sam Lipp at Derosia, New York, Contemporary Art Writing Daily, June 27, 2022

The Best Exhibitions to See Across America This Summer, Frieze, June 24, 2022

Sam Lipp's Tasteful Titillations, John Belknap, Frieze, June 23, 2022 

The Best of Frieze London 2019, Something Curated, October 4, 2019

Civic Duty, Giulia Smith, Art Monthly, July-August 2019, Print

Sam Lipp “Incest” at Bonny Poon, Charles Teyssou, Spike Art Magazine, #60 Summer 2019, Print

Chasing the Myth of Michael Jackson, Aida Amoako, The Atlantic, August 16, 2018

Interview with Sam Lipp, Drew Zeiba, Editorial Magazine, Issue 18, May 2018, Print

Sam Lipp, Lara Konrad, Coeval, September 2017

Sam Lipp, Nicholas Linnert, Artforum, September 2016

Aunt Nancy at Night Gallery, Pablo Lopez, Carla, June 2016

Contemporary Art Daily Founder Forrest Nash’s Picks from NADA Miami Beach 2015, Forrest Nash, December 2, 2015

Ins + Outs: Close-Up, Juliet Helmke, Modern Painters, October 2015

What Our Critics Are Really Looking Forward to This Fall, Jerry Saltz, Vulture, August 26, 2015

Sam Lipp at Neochrome, Mousse Magazine Blog, April 23, 2015

Sam Lipp, Domenico De Chirico, Dust Magazine Online, April 7, 2014

Sam Lipp at Free Paarking, Stephanie Zimmerman, Temporary Art Review, March 26, 2014

Sam Lipp, Waldo Pardon, Skinned Magazine, March 6, 2014

In a Tide Drawn Out, Tess Barry, North American Review Blog, Februaury 17, 2014

Top 5 Lists for 2013, Britton Bertran, Bad at Sports, January 6, 2014 

SFAQ Pick: Sam Lipp and Thora Dolven Balke two person exhibition “Variety Lights” at Devening Projects and Editions, Chicago, SFAQ Online, November 2013

Review: Guyth/Dos Perros Projects, Matt Morris, NewCity, September 3, 2013

Puppies Puppies, Luis Miguel Bendaña and Sam Lipp, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, Fall 2013

By Appointment Only: Viewing Art Privately in Chicago, Jason Foumberg, Art In America, July 10, 2013

Looking Back, Looking Forward: Part 4, Jason Foumberg, Frieze Blog, December 29, 2012

NewCity’s Top 5 of Everything 2012: Art, Jason Foumberg, New City Art, December 20, 2012

Review: Samuel Lipp/Scott Projects, Patrice Connelly, NewCity, March 23, 2009

 

 

RESIDENCIES

2018Mahler & LeWitt Studios Residency, Spoleto, Italy
2015Carabic Walking Residency
2011Real Time and Space, Oakland, CA
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