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                                                 NINA LIPKOWITZ: "iPAINT ON MY iPAD"
                                                            SEPTEMBER 2-25, 2022
  “iPaint on my iPad” is a colorful and whimsical body of work created in light and printed in pigments.
Portable devices such as the iPad have allowed Lipkowitz to combine her physical mobility such as the many trips with her nature photographer husband, John with her art-making toolbox. The term “digital” has a dual meaning for Lipkowitz since her fingertip is the only brush she requires to create this new round of “iPaintings.” With its back-lit screen, she has turned this device into endless sheets of “drawing paper” with infinite marks, brushes and colors ultimately printed in limited editions on the finest watercolor printer papers with archival pigment inks.
During her years as a sculptor and potter, she learned to use the elements of drawing, color, line and shape in conjunction with three-dimensional forms. In creating her “iPaintings,” Lipkowitz practices those skills with lines that twist and turn and dance across the paper building layers of color and marks.
Artists such as Matisse, Picasso, Miro, Kandinsky and the brazen color palette of the Fauves continue to inspire her while, by the last layer of pixels, the work looks uniquely her own.
Her aesthetic vocabulary appears to be a language of secret meanings only known to the artist herself. What may appear to be a sacred symbol composed of shape and line, reads universally in a translation all can interpret. In “Red Dot” for example, the form fills the space comfortably occupying the picture plane but, like a living organism, may breathe out to touch the edges of its confinement. Throughout the exhibit, a conversation takes place between the formal content, i.e., lines, shapes, patterns, that play with and illuminate our understanding of abstraction in art.



 
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