Alice Tippit
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Cold by Alice Tippit
Alice Tippit (b. 1975) is a Chicago-based painter and printmaker. Playfully erotic, Tippit’s surrealist-inspired canvases function as visual poems or puns, resisting their often enigmatic titles. Unfolding references from art history, advertising, and linguistic metaphor, Tippit’s carefully selected color palette, and flat, graphic style mask her carefully constructed hand-painted surfaces.
“My artistic practice is informed by my interest in language creation and the application of meaning. In my paintings I employ a graphic, hard-edged style and a restrained color palette, using simple, recognizable yet relatively neutral shapes. From afar, the effect is flat and clean but closer examination reveals a surface that is not so much flat as it is filled in with visible brush marks and slight variations in color. The images function as signs in which the interaction of form and color produce visual relationships that seem to project specificity while remaining ambiguous enough to allow interpretation and inquiry.”
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