Artist Feature: Laurie Lipton
"Self obsession and isolation run rampant while the outside world crumbles to a trash filled ruin."
Through her massive wall spanning masterpieces, it’s easy to see why Laurie Lipton is the self proclaimed “21st Century’s Greatest Draftswoman”. Meticulously detailed, viciously outspoken, her charcoal and graphite works encapsulate the dystopian apocalypse looming over our technology obsessed society. Grinning skeletons stare at their phones while riding endless escalators in “Happy”, and a complex conveyor belt commodifies love and likes in “Newsfeed”. Self obsession and isolation run rampant while the outside world crumbles to a trash filled ruin. Artists capture the nature of the world around them, and Lipton does not hold back from revealing the ugly horrors so often sugar coated or ignored. These works demand you look closely at what our world is becoming.
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