My current body of work deals with the issue of apathy and laziness. In American culture, television in particular has the effect of inducing a catatonic and isolating state. I illustrate this catatonia by juxtaposing past references to culture with modern technology. Throughout this year I have experimented in a variety of printmaking techniques such as collagraph, etching, monotype, and silkscreen. Though the media in my current work may vary, I always contrast the old with the new by rendering the past recontextualized objects/images realistically and the modern technology in a less literal style.
Sophie Lipman is originally from Evanston, Illinois. She is currently a junior at Washington University in St. Louis pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking/Drawing as well as a second major in Mathematics. She has exhibited her work internationally in Italy as well as in the United States. Although Sophie was just introduced to printmaking this year she has come to enjoy and experiment with the multitude of different techniques as well as integrating these techniques with drawing.
Grotesque Portraits
A series of portraits if artists who deal with and illustrate the grotesque.
Technological Apathy
Pastel Work
World Food Map
A map of the world made up of food! taken from where foods originated and/or where certain foods are eaten more prevalentely
Florence Works
This series of drawings recontextualizes several of Francisco Goya's prints from his Los Caprichos series.
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Wall of TVs
A wall of printed telelvisions hung across from four drawn shrunken heads that have been silkscreened on to pillows and pinned to the wall. (opposite).
TV Shrinks Your Head
Drawn shrunken heads that have been silkscreened onto fabric and made into pillows, placed in front of a static television monitor.
Escape!
Sixteen pieces of cloth each silkscreened with a beatle and pinned on the wall. One square in the center is without a beatle and one in the corner where there is an embroidered beatle in addition to the silkscreened one.
TV Torah
A Torah made out of channel guides.
TV Specimen
A Specimen display case for the televisions of the past century.
My Sketchbook
Studio Play
