New Dimensions: Sculpture and Prints
at Boston Sculptors Gallery
486 Harrison Avenue
Boston MA, 02118
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Storefront and Elevator Access
February 7 - March 10, 2007
Artist's Reception: February 10, 3-6 pm
First Friday Reception: March 2, 5-8 pm
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday-Saturday, 12-6 pm
Having recently returned to printmaking, Peter Lipsitt is offering both new prints and sculpture developed together. This exhibition highlights the visual relationships between the two chosen arenas. Matters of scale merge with architectonic elements to create a visual music of lights and darks, interaction of solids and voids, subtle coloration, and lyrical lines. There is an evident dialogue with process between the two disciplines—spontaneity and immediacy of the inked monotypes on the one hand, and the manipulation of material objects in space on the other. The smell of ink and oil are in the air.
One sculpture, a commanding assemblage of found lumber, plywood and new steel, soars towards the ceiling and engages the viewer directly as it elaborates upon discoveries made in the print studio. Other works in bronze and mixed media, while intimate as maquettes, can imply large outdoor sculpture. Meanwhile, the various prints draw the viewer into mysterious, illuminated passageways and cul-de-sacs, an illusion arrested in time and place.
Peter Lipsitt's work is included in the collections of the Fogg Art Museum, the Rose Museum, the DeCordova Museum, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston Metropolitan District Commission, University Place-Cambridge, and Hamilton College, among others.
