Pat Lipsky-Sutton Painting at eBay
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This painting is from 1987 by the abstract painter Pat Lipsky-Sutton.
Her debut as an artist was as a member of Andre Emmerich's stable of
artists in the 1970s. Sutton-Lipsky is included in the collections of
the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., the Brooklyn Museum, the
Wadsworth Athnaneum, and numerous private collections. A statement
of authenticity by the present owner is included with the purchase.
Pat Lipsky-Sutton- . . . . .
"It takes courage to be a painter these days--courage and stubborness.
To be an abstract painter takes even more determination. To be an
abstract painter whose work is full of rich associations, ambiguity, and
emotional resonance, expressed through the language of "pure"
painting--rather than fashionable irony and cynicism, presented as
anonymously as possible-demands idealism and pasionate belief in the
values not only of modernism, but of the entire tradition of Western
painting.
Pat Lipsky-Sutton obviously possesses all of these admirable qualities,
but that is not what makes her paintings so compelling. What engages
the viewer is not the artist's motivation--however high minded--but
the lush, evocative color harmonies of her pictures, their
combination of severity and elegance, their unignorable
physicality, their ability to call up a range of associations
and, at the same time, remain unequivocally about the act of putting
paint on canvas. Lipsky-Sutton has been a serious painter--a good
one--for thirty years. it is not hyperbole to call her recent pictures
her most powerful yet."
Quote, Karen Wilkin, August, 1997 catalogue essay, one person show
From the recent acquisitions page at the Smithsonian Institution:
http://www.si.edu/artarchives/recacqny.htm
The Archives collects significant lectures, too, a recent
example of which is a copy of a twenty-one page transcript of a talk
given by painter Pat Lipsky-Sutton(b.1941) at the Pollock-Krasner House
in July 1995, entitled "What Tony and Lee and Clem Told Me, A
Reminiscence," about Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock
(19121956). Sutton, a contemporary abstract artist, discussed what Tony
Smith, Lee Krasner, and Clement Greenberg said to her about
various art world issues including formal choices, Greenberg's love of
Pollock, and Krasner's relationship with her husband. Various aperçus
are recalled, including Greenberg's formulation that "all art is about
character" and W. H. Auden's remark about Greenberg's "warm
head, cold heart." Much of the talk is a run-through of Pollock's work
and Greenberg's comments about it.
Material for this talk came from Sutton's diary, which the Archives may
acquire someday. There is also a copy of an interview with Sutton
(interviewer unidentified), "Clement Greenberg in the Studio," which
took place in April 1995 and is largely a reminiscence of Greenberg.
Other web sources on Pat Lipsky-Sutton and her paintings:
http://www.abstract-art.com/lyrical_abstraction/48More_ArtstsFldr/71_lip
sky-klu.html
http://www.abstract-art.com/00_index-folder/10ArtistList.html
http://www.artincontext.org/new_york/snyder_fine_art/exhibiting_or_offer
ing.htm
http://www.artincontext.org/artist/l/pat_lipsky/organizations.htm
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