About the work
I want to move away from the rigid support that often defines “Painting”, while remaining in relationship with the wall as a site to experience the painted work. I am curious about ways to think about the canvas in painting, and how it can be expanded (literally) into a larger conversation that also incorporates the body and our tactile world.
The painting XOX, here pictured on the cover, has a dimensional outer boundary that acts like a very enlarged frame. Within this frame there is a limb-like form that supports and also frames an elliptical opening to empty space. The scale of the piece becomes architectural in relation to the viewer, and yet, it is a soft architecture. I imagine the central empty space as a portal that can mimic painting’s historical function to take us somewhere; the “window” of Renaissance painting altered to become both nothingness and also a space in which we can project our fantasies.
-Meg Lipke, Ghent, NY 2022
About the artist
MEG LIPKE (b. 1969, Portland, OR) makes sculptural paintings using canvas, thread and fiber. Her work often alludes to the female body and challenges classical tenets of western Painting. Lipke received her BA from The University of Vermont with College Honors in Painting and Women’s Studies and her MFA in Painting from Cornell University. Lipke is a 2020 recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Craft/Sculpture. Her work has been reviewed in The New Yorker, The Brooklyn Rail, Art in America, the New York Times and the Village Voice. Lipke lives and works in New York’s Hudson Valley. She is represented by Broadway gallery in NYC.
Meg Lipke
Photo: Willi Somma
