Lawrence Gipe

Gipe’s latest series, Russian Drone Paintings, employs the visual style of “Manifest Destiny” canvasses of the 19th Century. This directly references the Industrial Revolution: the historical origin, in his view, of our total ecological peril. Source images are derived from screenshots of drone footage posted on the now-censored RT news service run by the Russian government. These works address issues of hostile surveillance, climate change, and the Anthropocene. Seen through the lens of our global “adversary”, images of cities abandoned due to radioactivity, bombardment, and other traumatic events become representative of humanity’s relentless intrusion into nature. Selected works from this series feature prominently in Gipe's 2022 solo exhibition, Recent Pictures, at William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles. ==Selected solo exhibitions==

• 1986 Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, CA • 1988 Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA • 1989 Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich, Germany • 1989 America Haus, Berlin, Germany • 1989 Hartje Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany • 1990 Shea & Beker Gallery, New York, NY • 1992 Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY • 1992 Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich, Germany • 1992 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA • 1993 Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, NY • 1993 Food House, Santa Monica, CA • 1993 Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA • 1993 Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany • 1994 Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA • 1994 The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA • 1996 Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY • 1996 Kohn-Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA • 1996 Quartet Editions, New York, NY • 1996 Hunsaker Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA • 1998 Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY • 1998 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA • 1999 Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY • 2001 Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, IL • 2001 Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY • 2006 Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ • 2006 University Art Museum at Arizona State, Tempe, AZ (Mid-Career Survey) • 2007 Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY • 2007 Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO • 2008 Randall Scott Gallery, Washington, DC • 2010 Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA • 2011 Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ • 2012 Primary Projects, Miami, FL • 2014 Galerie Michael Heufelder, Munich, Germany • 2015 Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA • 2018 Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA • 2019 Tsinghua University Academy of Art and Design, Beijing, People's Republic of China (PRC) • 2021 Paul Mahder Gallery, Healdsburg, CA • 2022 William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA == Permanent collections ==

• The Brooklyn Museum • Los Angeles County Museum of Art • San Jose Museum of Art • Santa Barbara Museum of Art • Yale University Library • Boise Art Museum • Cincinnati Art Museum • Norton Museum of Art • The Ringling Museum of Art ==References==