EPISODE · Mar 16, 2023 · 37 MIN
08: Laurie Lipton
from FIVE PLACES L.A. · host Laurie Lipton, Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen, Anali Gharakhani
Show notes and Laurie’s five places: This interview was recorded on December 22, 2022 The Getty Museum LACMA Pacific Coast Highway aka California State Route 1 and 3b. Hummingbirds The Pacific Ocean, the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. And that famous L.A. light quality, as described by Patt Morrison in the L.A. Times: You’ve noticed it, right? There’s just something about L.A.’s light Trader Joe’s (and fresh produce in general, especially avocados!) Also mentioned in this episode: The Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck Art for art’s sake “Happy”, the painting behind Laurie during the interview Shayna Nys Dambrot Related Links Love Bite: Laurie Lipton and Her Disturbing Black & White Drawings, a documentary film by James Scott Newest Book: LAURIE LIPTON drawing Website: www.laurielipton.com On instagram: @laurieliptondrawings Credits: Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com) Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram) Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier Special thanks to: Monica Lamela for her extraordinary video editing skills This podcast was recorded on Chumash, Tongva and Micqanaqa’n land. © 2023 Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, and FIVE PLACES L.A. www.laforum.org Credits: Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com) Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram) Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Quynh Nguyen Creator, Executive Producer, and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier This podcast was recorded on unceded Chumash and Tongva land. © 2026 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES www.laforum.org
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Laurie Lipton was born in New York in 1953 and began drawing at the age of four. Lipton was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honors). She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, London and has recently moved back to the USA after 36 years abroad. She currently resides in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA. Lipton was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School. She tried to teach herself how to paint in the style of the 16th century Dutch Masters and failed. When traveling around Europe as a student, she began developing her very own peculiar drawing technique building up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines like an egg tempera painting. "It's an insane way to draw", she says, "but the resulting detail and luminosity is worth the amount of effort. My drawings take longer to create than a painting of equal size. You can’t really experience the impact of the detail & intensity of one of my larger pieces on a computer screen. They have to be seen in the flesh.”
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