3 Five-Year Plans: Lawrence Gipe 1990-2005
Arizona State University Art Museum
March 11 – June 10, 2006
Lawrence Gipe, b. 1962
Panel No. 5 from Amerika (Schatten, 1938), 2000
Oil on panel, 84 x 64"
Courtesy of Modernism, San Francisco, California
This mid-career retrospective surveys work that appropriates historical images to raise questions about the power of the image and the uses to which it may be put to shape national identity and social values. Concentrating on images of epic nationalism and the role that the image of industry played in forging a sense of entitlement to power, Gipe re-inscribes the Romanticism of the Nazi official painting, then of the photography manuals used to ostensibly demonstrate the power of German optics, while the latest group looks at American military advertising images.
Lecture by the artist:
Friday, March 10, noon
ASU Art Museum
Reception:
Friday, March 10, 6-8 p.m.
ASU Art Museum
Open to members. Memberships available at the door. The artist will be present.
A catalogue of the exhibition includes essays by Carol Diehl and Marilyn A. Zeitlin, curator of the exhibition, and interview of the artist by Julian La Verdiere, and images of the works in the exhibition.
This exhibition is available for tour to institutions
For more information contact John Spiak at spiak@asu.edu.
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