October Colorado Workshop Canceled

The Colorado Academy of Art in Boulder has closed, and my workshop has been canceled.
This is text from an email sent out today from Peter Kennedy of CAA, it gives an email address to contact someone about a refund. It doesn't sound very assuring, if you were signed up for the workshop you should probably contact them right away. The doors are closed, the website is down, the phone is disconnected and the email address below is the only way to get in contact with anyone from the school.

"There are some outstanding refunds that still need to be addressed for future classes or workshops that some have registered for. Please respond to caaclosed@gmail.com if a refund is owed to you so we can begin to formulate a plan to try to pay those back."

Update: Just found this article online on the Daily Camera about the CAA closing. Apparently the instructors stopped getting payed 6 months ago.

Opening Night

Some of Mikes pics from Saturday night at the opening of my show.
The show will be up until July 12th at Track 16 Gallery at Bergamot Station, open Tuesday - Saturday.

For info about the paintings contact Arcadia Gallery 212 965-1387

Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Ave.
Santa Monica CA

The Best Fish Taco's Ever

Every plein air painter has probably had some kind of issue with food while your painting out in rural places. In the backcountry there is no food unless you bring it, in France nothing is open after 3Pm except bars (Guinness will hold you over till dinner). Some artist I know say they don't get hungry while painting. Not me, if I dont eat lunch I'll paint a "frisbee"
If you happen to be a fish taco connoisseur like me and, I think Utah artist Ryan Brown, (if you read this Ryan correct me if I'm wrong) you need to know about this hidden gem.
The best fish taco's you'll ever eat can be found at Whoa Nellie Deli in a Mobile gas station in Lee Vining CA. Lee Vining is a small town at the foot of the Eastern Sierra just outside of Yosemite. Don't let the gas station part turn you off, "this is some serious gourmet shit" and it's anything but gas station food. I stop here almost every time I paint in that area.
You get two taco's, one has a mango plum pineapple salsa and the second has a gingery sauce with lettuce. I think the ginger one used to have a wasabi sauce instead of ginger but they are still the best fish taco's I've ever had. My cellphone pic doesn't do it justice, Here are some pics of the other dish's they serve.

Video clip from The Portrait Sketch with Jeremy Lipking DVD

Here's a short video clip from my dvd. It's about four minutes of me painting the earring. I included the commentary track with Tony and me.

California Art Club 97th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition

Here's a little video from the California Art Club's 97th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition at the Museum of California Art Pasadena CA.
April 25th 2008.
Some of the exhibiting artists:
John Asaro, Clyde Aspevig, Bela Bacsi, Drew Struzan, Ignat Ignatov, Tony Pro, Aaron Westerberg, Jeremy Lipking, Alex Schaefer, Warren Chang, Adrian Gottlieb, Ryan Wurmser, Amery Bohling, Peter Adams, Ariana Richards, Lindsay Goodwin, Howard Sabin, Steve Huston, Mian Situ, Sergio Sanchez, Alexey Steele, Tony Peters, Dan Thompson, Calvin Liang, David Gallup, Toni Czechorosky.

American Art Collector Magazine article and cover

I have an article in the June issue of American Art Collector Magazine Jeremy Lipking Force of Nature. Photographer Jeff Newton came out and took some cool photos of me working. There are some paintings from my upcoming show in Santa Monica including the cover image, a detail of a painting of my daughter Skylar.
My buddy Joseph Todorovitch also has an article in the same issue.

My One-Man show is coming up

My Exhibition of 25 new paintings opens June 28th at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica CA. For more ifo you can contact Arcadia Gallery 212 965-1387.
Go here for more info.