/ 

Brandon
Lipchik

artworks
About

Brandon Lipchik was born in Erie, (US), in 1993. Lives and works in Berlin, (DE).

Brandon Lipchik’s images, rendered on the computer and then transferred to canvas by hand, deconstruct different perspectives and layer them together to create a multi-perspective visual collage. His works are reminiscent of footage from CCTV cameras that monitor a room from various angles or drones circling a subject.

“When I paint, I realize how much control I have over perspective. Just like a filmmaker, I determine what the viewer should see — whereas the filmmaker is limited to what the camera or physics provide. I often use a floating head perspective or an over-the-shoulder view to literally look down on the character, as in a movie, or to emphasize that they are being observed. You could even say that I provide an out-of-body or spiritual view of my simulated characters,” Lipchik says.

The often garishly lit, vividly colored, multi-perspective images echo typical tropes of Americana, yet as mythically charged pop culture sites. Lipchik deconstructs bodies, spaces, plants, objects, and fauna, reducing them to rudimentary, abstract, hard-edged shapes, while juxtaposing them with painterly, softer mark-making and gestural brushstrokes. His figures are reminiscent of early computer animation. Undoubtedly, Lipchik’s paintings also explore the concept of “machine people” — new connections between the organic, technology, and AI — and an era poised to radically transform humanity, relationships, and art. However, this Modernism 2.0 is not driven by the belief in progress and the optimism of the early 20th century but rather by uncertainty. His scenes are fantastical, grotesque, and decadent, forming a kaleidoscopic visual language where myth, technology, and magic intersect.

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting – Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, (US)
Digital Language Art – Brown University, Providence, (US)

Publications and Bibliography

2022 Moonbeams of Allegory, publication by Hatje Cantz and Kunstpalais Erlangen


 Awards and Residencies
 
2020  The Garage Residency, Amsterdam, (NL)
2019  Palazzo Monti Residency, Brescia, (IT)
2018  So Far Residency, Montpellier, (FR)
2018  Oli Epp’s Summer Residency, The Koppel Project Hive, London, (GR)
2014  Brooks Fellowship Award Winner, Snowmass Village, (US)
2011 Northwestern Pennsylvania Artists Association Scholar, Erie, (US)
2011 Rhode Island School of Design Scholarship, Providence, (US)

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2024 Absolute Darlings, Robert Grunenberg (DE)
2022 Moonbeams of Allegory, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, (DE)
2021 Above the Surface, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin, (DE)
2021 Inground, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, (US)
2020 Visions of Song, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin, (DE)
2020 Upcoming Spring, Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris, (FR)
2019 Visions of Song, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin, (DE)
2018 Nu Digital, Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris, (FR)

Group Exhibitions

2024 Portrait of a Man, Museum X, Beijing, (CHN)
2024 Licked by the waves, Museum More, Gorssel, (NL)
2023 SIRANI, Galerie Judin, Berlin (DE)
2023 Winterausstellung, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin (DE)
 2023 IMAGINE — 10 Unrealized Projects, Robert Grunenberg, (DE)
2022 In Search of the Present, EMMA Museum Helsinki, Helsinki, (FI)
2022 Art Brussels (Double feature booth with Sonja Yakovleva), Brussels, (BE)
2021  THE ARTIST IS ONLINE, König Galerie, Berlin, (DE)
2020  Sincere Intentions, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin, (DE)
2020  Arena, East Projects, New York, (US)
2019-2020  Kunst nach den sozialen Medien, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, (DE)
2019  Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, (IT)
2019  Expo Chicago, Richard Heller Gallery, Chicago, (US)
2019  Group Show Pop Up, Galerie Julien Cadet, Montpellier, (FR)
2019  Post Digital Pop, The Garage, Amsterdam, (NL)
2019  Something New, Something Borrowed, Plastic Murs, Valencia, (ES)
2019  Time Bomb, Wadstrom Tonnheim Gallery, Marbella, (ES)
2019  Ultra Light Beams, Mount Analogue, Seattle, (US)
2018  Last Minute, Art Haps Gallery, New York, (US)
2018  While Supplies Last, Seattle, (US)
2016  Senior Invitational Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, (US)
2016  RISD Annual Senior Thesis Show, Providence, (US)
2015  Erie Art Museum’s 92nd Annual Spring Show, Erie, (US)

past exhibitions
BRANDON LIPCHIK
Absolute Darlings
20 April – 15 June 2024
press
news
Brandon Lipchik: In Search of the Present at emma
Read More
Brandon Lipchik: Moonbeams of Allegory at kunstpalais erlangen
Read More