Realist Revolution and Critical Relevance

I'm moderating a very important panel discussion in the Washington D.C area Friday night April 23rd with some REALLY top notch panelists, Jacob Collins, Alexey Steele, James Panero and Dr. Vern Swanson. It is part of the PSOA conference but it's free and open to the public (reservations required) contact 
Christine Egnoski at info@portraitsociety.org or call 877-772-4321



Contemporary Art: 

REALIST REVOLUTION

and 

CRITICAL RELEVANCE


Is Main Stream Media Missing an Important Cultural Trend? 



Friday night April 23rd 2010 4:00pm
 Hyatt Regency Reston, VA




Premises: 
There is an actually existing, wide-spread, multi-faceted Realist movement in
the Art world today. It is functioning as a set of specific tools,
philosophy and practice. As any major art movement in history - it is a
common visual language based on a common world view. 
This movement is current, relevant and forward - looking
. This movement is part of presently existing contemporary Art 
This movement is a reflection of an important aspect of our modern world - democratization of cultural plane.


more info http://www.lipking.com/realistrevolution.html

The Opening for Will.i.am's "Who Killed the Music" exhibit at the Grammy Museum

Here are some of Jonathan Lipking's photos from last night's opening of the Who Killed the Music exhibition at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. The exhibit is on view now till Jan. 27th 12 - 6pm

Artist Lola Gil and her piece

Mandy Thomas, Jeremy Lipking and Joseph Todorovitch

Artist Alexey Steele, Jeremy Lipking, Danielle Lipking and Joseph Todorovitch

Poet Name Life and a friend. Poet DJ'd at the event

artists Jeremy Lipking, Paul Chatem, and Ronald Lipking

model Esther de Jong and Jeremy Lipking

Arcadia Gallery owner Steve Diamant with Will.i.am

Jeremy Lipking, Will.i.am, Ronald Lipking

Jonathan Lipking and James Van Der Beek

Ronald Lipking and Ashley Lipking

Jeremy Lipking and Danielle Lipking

My artists profile for the Who Killed the Music exhibit

The Who Killed the Music exhibition is open this week at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles.

Who Killed The Music Grammy Exhibition

I have a piece in Will.i.am's "Who Killed the Music" Grammy Exhibition. Set to coincide with the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, the show will feature artwork from Camille Rose Garcia, Audrey Kawasaki, Van Arno, Lola, Richard Colman, Mercedes Helnwein, Kris Lewis, Paul Chatem, Nathan Spoor, Justin BUA, Jason Thielke, Gregory Euclide, Sarah McColgan, Travis Louie, Ron Lipking, and me. The exhibit is open to the public January 25th - 27th 12pm - 6pm at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles.

Gulf Connoisseur article

Check out my article in the new issue of Gulf Connoisseur magazine, its a large format magazine with good reproductions. Its published in the Middle East so it may be hard to find in the States but you can read it online.

The Maiden Heist movie featuring my painting is out on DVD

The movie The Maiden Heist (featuring my painting "The Lonely Maiden") starring Morgan Freeman, Christopher Walken and William H. Macy is available now on DVD. The whole painting was somewhat invented, including the girl painted by combining Marcia Gay Harden who plays Roger's (C. Walken) wife, with LA model Toni Czechorosky.
In the movie you can see some extreme close ups of the painting, here are a couple shots I took before sending the painting off to the set. Because the painting was supposed to be painted by fictitious painter (Marcel de Robert) belonging to a fictitious late 19th century painting movement (Post French Naturalist) I wanted the paint to be thicker and look more layered than my own paintings and look a little more like the Naturalist painters. I had a limited amount of time to complete the piece so I used Galkyd Lite medium to minimize the drying time. See my older post where I talk a little more about creating the painting for the movie.

California Figure Workshops

I'm having two 3-day workshops at my studio this November. We'll spend the first two days painting the figure in the studio and the last day we'll paint the figure outdoors. The cost is $495.

sign up online:
November 6th-8th
November 13th-15th

more info here