About the work
A cavern yawns. Is it a representation of sound waves? Or a reflected landscape? A white shape, lip-like, hovers enigmatically above—possibly inside—the void.
A piece of fruit with a subtly defined cleft, indicative of a peach, is laid—or perched—at a critical juncture.
Trees suggest knees, or other parts of the body. A leaf cannot decide.
As often as a work begins in a purely visual play with form and color, it can also start with relationships in language, through metaphor, in rhyme, and other poetical strategies, before moving into the visual realm. Within the image, form shifts between presence and absence. A thing can become a void and vice versa. If my work is about anything, it is about holding onto the moment, between this and that. Though they seem to function as riddles, they also beg the question of whether the answer really matters.
-Alice Tippit, March 2022
About the artist
ALICE TIPPIT (b. 1975) lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. Tippit addresses her interest in language and the drift of meaning through her paintings and drawings. Her boldly graphic imagery is familiar yet rendered strange through a series of shifts: in scale; interaction of color; from negative to positive space. Her work has been written about in the New York Times, ArtForum, and Frieze, among other publications. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Nicelle Beauchene, New York, NY; PATRON, Chicago, IL; Grice Bench, Los Angeles, CA; Kimmerich Galerie, Berlin; Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago, IL; CHART Gallery, New York, NY; Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY. Tippit’s work is currently featured in The Regional, a survey of artists living in the Midwest, at the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City.
Alice Tippit
