Career
He is currently an Assistant Professor in 2D Studies at the University of Arizona. Gipe derives his paintings from an “irredeemable” image pool of ideological photographs. Since the 1980s, every work has come from an archive of propaganda tracts, social realist photography books and other art “approved” by politically driven authorities.
Appropriating imagery from photo journals and magazines from the 1930s to the 1970s, his paintings translate small black and white images into large, visually seductive color works.
Radically severed from their original contexts, the intention is for these reinterpretations to actively force the spectator to reconstruct the images" ideological significance. He has exhibited internationally, including solo museum exhibitions at the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California.
Amerika-Haus, Berlin. Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Master of Arts. Kunstverein Düsseldorf.
And The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia. His work is in numerous public collections, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Yale University Library, Zimmerli Archive-Rutgers University, Boise Art Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach.
1986 Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1987 Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1988 Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
1989 Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich, Germany
1989 America Haus, Berlin, Germany
1989 Hartje Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany
1990 Shea&Beker Gallery, New York, New York
1990 Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1991 Shea&Beker Gallery, New York, New York
1992 Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, New York
1992 Blum Helman Gallery, New York, New York
1992 Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich, Germany
1992 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Master of Arts
1993 Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, New York
1993 Food House, Santa Monica, California
1993 Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, California
1993 Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany
1994 Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1994 The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
1996 Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, New York
1996 Kohn-Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1996 Quartet Editions, New York, New York
1996 Hunsaker Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, California
1998 Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, New York
1998 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1999 Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, New York
2001 Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2001 Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, New York
2003 Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, New York
2006 Bentley Projects, Phoenix, Arizona
2006 University Art Museum at Arizona State, Tempe, Arizona (mid-career survey)
2007 Alexander Gray Associates, New York
2007 Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2008 Randall Scott Gallery, Washington, District of Columbia
2010 Galerie Michael Heufelder, Munich, Germany
2010 Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, California
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