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Are Gipe's paint and print works purely art or historical curiosities? Decide for yourself at Gipe's slide presentation and lecture.
Lawrence Gipe draws on images that brought comfort and faith during two World Wars and a massive depression. The chosen imagery for his artwork is based on pictures that promised a Utopian future made safe by modern advances in industrialization. The artist 's view is post modern, ironic, and ambivalent. It comes with the wisdom of hindsight, knowledge of the now, and trepidation for the new century.
Gipe began his career in Los Angeles with a series of exhibitions addressing themes of industrialization and progress. Speeding trains, massive gears, and great cities in combination with those biggest of American 20th Century portraits: Presidents Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt from Mount Rushmore.
The artist's heroic renderings and intense palette indicate his own difficulty in releasing the promise of the twentieth century and beyond. These are images we hold dearly, which we now view with a mixture of pride, longing and critical analysis. Gipe’s work presents a unique visual essay on our national heritage.
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