Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (CAF) presents Bloom Projects: Annie Lapin, History =ing on view August 5 – September 30, 2012.
Annie Lapin, Untitled 1, 2012, Oil on canvas, 82 x 72 in., Courtesy the Artist and Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
With allusions to a multiplicity of painterly spaces and affects, Annie Lapin’s paintings examine and aestheticize the materiality of painting. Monochromatic paintings, composed from muddy paint residue are sourced from Lapin’s used paintbrush jars. The paint also forms thick borders around the canvases, creating a “frame” of painting, made out of the paint itself. Calling into question notions of context and subjectivity, Lapin’s highly distilled works consider the essence of painting and poetics.
Los Angeles-based artist Annie Lapin received an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a BA from Yale University, New Haven, CT. Lapin has recently shown at the Pasadena Museum of California Art; Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO; and Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. She is represented by Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA.
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