Overview

Annie Lapin’s paintings reside in a world of multiplicities; digital histories and analog mark making come together to form landscapes that abide neither to the rules of the virtual nor to the physical. Initiating each painting with generous pours of paint and liquid graphite, Lapin’s abstract marks become the armature around which pictorial space is built. Punched with trompe l’oeil forms, photographic blur, and references to the sublime imagery of Western landscape painting and photography, the polyvalent scenes conjure a sense of mystery and fervor.

 

Seemingly representational and highly rendered imagery such as forests or figures merge jarringly with the abstract. An abstract form will quickly become part of a body or the extension of land. Polychromatic skyscapes—sourced both from the artist’s photo archive and visual media online—are rendered with hyper-realistic detail, while figures are consumed into epic environments that emerge from color fields. These various references coalesce into a fractured yet coherent depiction of our world, creating an experience akin to our own perception: one that is littered with conflicting information that must logically connect. Lapin shares, “I imagine painting not as a representation of a place or thing, but rather an image of our longing to understand our world, which builds on and defines itself over time, like the contours of our historical narratives and myths."

 


 

Annie Lapin received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2007, her Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004, and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 2001. Select solo exhibitions include Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles, CA; Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Josh Lilley, London, England; Annarumma Gallery, Naples, Italy; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA; Yautepec Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA. Group exhibitions include the USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT; Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria; Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy; Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY; LA Louver, Los Angeles, CA; and the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY. 

 

Lapin is the recipient of the Falk Visiting Artist Award at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC and she has been awarded residencies at Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO; Grand Arts, Kansas, MO; Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland; and Chautauqua Institute, New York, NY. Her work has been featured in Art in AmericaModern PaintersLos Angeles TimesHarper’s MagazineArt and AntiquitiesArtnewsHyperallergicArtsy, and New American Paintings.

 

Annie Lapin’s work is included in the permanent collections of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach, CA; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL; Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; and Zabludowicz Collection, London, England.

Works
  • Annie Lapin, Drift of the Eye, 2024
    Annie Lapin
    Drift of the Eye, 2024
    Oil, acrylic, and oil stick on linen
    60 x 50 in
    152.4 x 127 cm
  • Annie Lapin, Intervention and Invention, 2024
    Annie Lapin
    Intervention and Invention, 2024
    Oil, acrylic, and oil stick on linen
    52 x 42 in
    132.1 x 106.7 cm
  • Annie Lapin, Toward Esalen, 2024
    Annie Lapin
    Toward Esalen, 2024
    Oil, acrylic, and oil stick on linen
    52 x 42 in
    132.1 x 106.7 cm
  • Annie Lapin, Unwilded (Giverny), 2024
    Annie Lapin
    Unwilded (Giverny), 2024
    Oil and acrylic on linen, framed
    24 x 19 in
    61 x 48.3 cm

    Framed: 26.5 x 21.5 in
    67.3 x 54.6 cm
  • Annie Lapin, Unwilded (Kaufmann), 2024
    Annie Lapin
    Unwilded (Kaufmann), 2024
    Oil and acrylic on linen, framed
    24 x 19 in
    61 x 48.3 cm

    Framed: 26.5 x 21.5 in
    67.3 x 54.6 cm
  • Annie Lapin, Unwilded (Mirabell), 2024
    Annie Lapin
    Unwilded (Mirabell), 2024
    Oil and acrylic on linen, framed
    24 x 19 in
    61 x 48.3 cm

    Framed: 26.5 x 21.5 in
    67.3 x 54.6 cm
  • Annie Lapin, Fabric and Reciprocal Glare, 2023
    Annie Lapin
    Fabric and Reciprocal Glare, 2023
    Oil, acrylic, and oil stick on canvas
    51 x 40"
  • Annie Lapin, Shifts (phenomena of accidents reaching up to frame time, which contains/ed space, which contains/ed time, and on and on like mirrors that face each other), 2023
    Annie Lapin
    Shifts (phenomena of accidents reaching up to frame time, which contains/ed space, which contains/ed time, and on and on like mirrors that face each other), 2023
    Oil and acrylic oil stick on linen
    42 x 32 in
    106.7 x 81.3 cm
  • Annie Lapin, Glows of Erasure, 2023
    Annie Lapin
    Glows of Erasure, 2023
    Oil and acrylic and oil stick on linen
    30 x 24 in
    76.2 x 61 cm
  • Annie Lapin, amalgam of (and some other thing that goes between) days, 2023
    Annie Lapin
    amalgam of (and some other thing that goes between) days, 2023
    Oil, oil stick and acrylic on linen
    72 x 82 in
    182.9 x 208.3 cm
  • Annie Lapin, The False and True Wholes (whorled world), 2023
    Annie Lapin
    The False and True Wholes (whorled world), 2023
    Acrylic, oil and oil stick on canvas
    60 x 60 in
    152.4 x 152.4 cm
  • Annie Lapin, Coriolis, 2023
    Annie Lapin
    Coriolis, 2023
    Oil, acrylic, and oil stick on linen
    50 x 82 in
    127 x 208.3 cm
  • Annie Lapin, A Cause (over time through the varied mauve lights), 2023
    Annie Lapin
    A Cause (over time through the varied mauve lights), 2023
    Acrylic and oil and oil stick on linen
    72 x 96 in
    182.9 x 243.8 cm
  • Annie Lapin, Rivers, 2023
    Annie Lapin
    Rivers, 2023
    Acrylic and oil and oil stick on linen
    50 x 82 in
    127 x 208.3 cm
  • Annie Lapin, Veil and Seers, 2022
    Annie Lapin
    Veil and Seers, 2022
    Acrylic and oil and oil stick on linen
    82 x 96 in
    208.3 x 243.8 cm
  • Annie Lapin, Pose (States of Water), 2022
    Annie Lapin
    Pose (States of Water), 2022
    Acrylic, oil and oil stick on linen
    72 x 59 in
    182.9 x 149.9 cm
  • Annie Lapin, Debate In and of the Distance, 2022
    Annie Lapin
    Debate In and of the Distance, 2022
    Oil, acrylic and oil stick on linen
    57 x 44 in
    144.8 x 111.8 cm
  • Annie Lapin, Light Folding, 2022
    Annie Lapin
    Light Folding, 2022
    Acrylic and oil stick on linen
    57 x 44 in
    144.8 x 111.8 cm
  • Annie Lapin, VO, 2022
    Annie Lapin
    VO, 2022
    Acrylic on Yupo
    42 x 28 in (framed)
    106.7 x 71.1 cm
  • Annie Lapin, Halving Having (StepScape 4), 2019
    Annie Lapin
    Halving Having (StepScape 4), 2019
    Oil, vinyl and acrylic paint and oil stick on linen
    52 x 42 inches
  • Annie Lapin, Inter Reaction (StepScape 2), 2019
    Annie Lapin
    Inter Reaction (StepScape 2), 2019
    Oil, acrylic and vinyl paint on linen
    52 x 42 inches
  • Annie Lapin, a dance in the future, 2019
    Annie Lapin
    a dance in the future, 2019
    Oil, acrylic and flocking on linen 
    23 x 18 inches
  • Annie Lapin, Picket Blanknic (heap 3), 2019
    Annie Lapin
    Picket Blanknic (heap 3), 2019
    Oil, acrylic, charcoal, and mica
    72 x 96 inches
  • Annie Lapin, Encounter Counter (heap 4), 2019
    Annie Lapin
    Encounter Counter (heap 4), 2019
    Oil, acrylic, and charcoal
    72 x 96 inches
  • Annie Lapin, Event, 2020
    Annie Lapin
    Event, 2020
    Oil and acrylic on linen
    50 x 82 inches
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