This Saturday, April 4th from 7-10 PM, Rivet Gallery brings to Columbus a two person art exhibit featuring the amazing artwork of Annie Owens & Laurie Lipton. A show preview is now available here. Contact Rivet if you so happen to be interested in any of these pieces. The only way to get the full effect of these awesome pieces is to stop by the gallery tonight. The show will run until April 29th, so if you can’t make it tonight, you have the rest of the month to check it out. Rivet gavea short bio on each of these artists right after the jump.
Annie Owens is a native of California’s Bay Area and is currently living in Albany as the co-founder of Hi-Fructose magazine. She’s shown in various gallery group exhibits over the last three years with her first solo show last May. Her work is Primarily rendered in watercolors and ink on paper. Her figurative paintings depict sullen faced girls who confront viewers with sometimes malicious stares, sometimes with a baleful gaze. The figures represent qualities within familial relationships and the varying complicated degrees of affection, malice, distrust, pain and love which exist within them.
Laurie Lipton was born in New York and began drawing at the age of four. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honors). She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany and France and has made her home in London since 1986. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA.
Lipton was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School. She tried to teach herself how to paint in the style of the 17th century Dutch Masters and failed. When traveling around Europe as a student, she began developing her very own peculiar drawing technique building up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines like an egg tempera painting. "It’s an insane way to draw", she says, "but the resulting detail and luminosity is worth the amount of effort".
