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Ripping Afterlife
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| The following information was submitted by the artist: Los Angeles native Jack Chipman received a BFA from Cal-Arts (originally Chouinard Art Institute) in Los Angeles and has exhibited his abstract paintings, collages and witty assemblages throughout California and abroad. His “rippings” series began in San Francisco in the 1970s, soon after graduation from art school. The paintings were called rippings because they were strips of canvas of various widths that were dyed subtle pastel shades. Some were hung from wooden bars at a level where the ends spilled out onto the floor while others were wrapped around bamboo poles and leaned against the wall. They were aligned with the Process and Materials movement and the poles were often described as akin to ritual objects. Curator of Art at the Oakland Museum, George W Neubert mounted a show of this post-minimal painting trend entitled “Off the Stretcher” that included Chipman along with Ed Moses, Peter Plagens, Tom Wudl and others. The more recent rippings have been composed of completed geometric abstractions, ripped and rearranged into dynamic new configurations. Chipman’s recently completed series of paintings known as “Afterlife” combined hard-edge geometry with more fluid abstraction and were only occasionally ripped. “Recreation” is the latest painting series. It involves multi-panels and is just in its initial stages.
Selected Exhibitions:
1991 Gate Gallery, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
1975 Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, California (with William Wareham)
1973 William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1973 Brand Art Center, Glendale, CA (with David Mackenzie)
1973 Jodi Scully Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (with Lynn Hershman)
1972 De Saisset Art Museum, UC Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA
1971 Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Museum Collections:
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA; De Saisset Art Museum, Santa Clara, CA
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