PAT LIPSKY

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For more details about Pat Lipsky's work contact Eli VandenBerg, Gallery Store Manager - 215 735-6090 x1 or email evandenberg@printcenter.org

Pat Lipsky Circuit, 2003 Carborundum etching 23" x 28"	Pat Lipsky Keyboard Variations, 2004 Silkscreen 18" x 29.25"

Pat Lipsky Porphyry, 2003 Carborundum etching 22.25" x 28"	Pat Lipsky Staccatto I, 2005 Monotype 30.5" x 27.5"

Pat Lipsky had her first one-woman show in New York at the Andre Emmerich Gallery shortly after completing her MFA.  She was then invited to participate in the influential 1970-1971 Lyrical Abstraction exhibition which traveled the country and culminated at New York's Whitney Museum. The critic Noel Frackman highlighted her contributions for freshness, gesture and exuberance, finding the style "sustained a mood which celebrates the sheer splendor of color. The edges of these shapes lick out like flames and there is an incendiary vividness in the impetuous yet directed forms...These are mouth-watering paintings."

By the later seventies and eighties, Lipsky had expanded her palette to include bolder colors and geometric forms.  In the 1980s and 1990s Lipsky continued to refine her broader color concerns, achieving a brooding, more sharply-defined palette. A selection of works from this period, "The Black Paintings," was exhibited in Miami in 1994 and New York City in 1997.  In the 2000s, Lipsky began another redefinition of palette, reincorporating color within a bold central image. Lipsky began to focus on single images presented in series. Her more recent exhibitions have contained repeating colors, in a stripped and repeated form. The painter and critic Stephen Westfall, in Art in America, called these paintings "her most successful," finding her "classicism" to be "ultimately idiosyncratic in the best sense."  The critic David Cohen, in The New York Sun, noted instead the opposite of classicism, "a steely, seemingly dispassionate composure" that contained "seething reserves of aesthetic emotion," stating, "Lipsky is not merely the dean of contemporary geometric abstraction but its dominatrix."

Lipsky was born in New York City where she lives and works to this day. She graduated with a BFA from Cornell University in 1963 and received an MFA from the Graduate Program in Painting at Manhattan's Hunter College.