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2022
Bronze in Mixed Media
2022
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2021
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Event: Beneath Perfection: The Underside of America’s Mid-Century Belle époque
Dates: 15 Apr 2023 - 19 May 2023
Appliances from the 1950s form the centerpieces of mixed media works that bring the viewer back in time. Curated messages culled from magazines and newspapers about atomic bombs, segregation, women’s reproductive rights, society’s rigid roles for women (cigarette smoker no, sexualized stewardess, yes!) hang from every wall. The overall effect is a disquieting mashup of whimsical nostalgia and sobering truths.
The theatricality of the wall hangings are accented and underscored by a mid-century living room installation. The vintage cabinet television plays a long montage of period commercials, news footage and televised content, pulling visitors in and providing them with the viewing experience of the midcentury housewife. Across the area rug, sits an armchair and side table replete with lipstick-marked wine glass, overflowing ashtray and vintage magazines.
Event: Making the Cut
Dates: 22 Jan 2023 - 17 Feb 2023
This curated online exhibition featuring over 100 works is a poetic, rhythmic, romp through the act of cutting up material in order to create something beautiful, political, serene and imaginative. This show is of more unconventional, non-traditional modes of collage while examining and exploring how artists cut up their work to tell creative stories. "BFD: Birmingham Fire Department, Big Fucking Deal", "Mommy" and "Know Your Place" were included in this online group show.
Event: Mankind/Nature
Dates: 15 Oct 2022 - 14 Oct 2023
"Welcome to Parasites" debuted at this online show juried by Hulya Karadeniz. This show is online definately.
Event: Indeterminate Connections
Dates: 11 Jun 2022 - 13 Jun 2022
This Los Angeles Art Association Crit Group organized a weekend show was curated by former MOCA senior curator Alma Ruiz and featured "Know Your Place, "BFD: Birmingham Fire Department, Big Fucking Deal' and "Mommy."
Event: Open Juried 2022 Group Show
Dates: 5 Jun 2022 - 28 Jun 2022
"Know Your Place", "Do You Inhale" and "Mommy" were selected but "DYI" was already placed at another show. "Mommy" won third place in the Mixed Media category.
Event: Sharp Dressed Man
Dates: 14 May 2022 - 21 Jul 2022
This group show featured "Do You Inhale" and was sold online at Artsy in three days.
Event: Regulated Garbage
Dates: 14 May 2022 - 28 May 2022
More than 400 works were submitted for this show featuring under 70 pieces. "Doomtown" premiered here.
Event: There From Here
Dates: 2 Apr 2022 - 22 Apr 2022
This group show at Artshare LA featured "Do You Inhale" and "Mommy." "Know Your Place" was accepted as well but it was already showing at another gallery.
Event: No Man's Land
Dates: 5 Mar 2022 - 26 Mar 2022
All female juried group show featured "BFD: Birmingham Fire Department, Big Fucking Deal" and won second prize.
Event: 2022 Artists Council Exhibition Group Show
Dates: 11 Feb 2022 - 27 Mar 2022
"Know Your Place" was chosen for this group show and was featured in the Desert Sun article announcing the show's opening.
https://www.desertsun.com/story/life/2022/02/11/90-artworks-display-ace-exhibition-artists-center-ga len/6755466001/
Edina Adam, Assistant Curator of Drawing, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles were the jurors for this exhibition.
Event: Pop Culture & Trashy
Dates: 6 Nov 2021 - 27 Nov 2021
200 artists and 500 works were submitted and only 40 pieces were accepted. "Do You Inhale" was accepted into this juried show and won the bronze.
Event: All About Women
Dates: 28 Aug 2021 - 28 Nov 2021
National Fine Arts Online Exhibition juried by Josh Paquette and Josh Otten, J. Willott Gallery, Palm Desert, California accepted "Do You Inhale", whose subject is the tobacco industry and its advertising.
Event: Upcycle
Dates: 14 Aug 2021 - 10 Sep 2021
Los Angeles Art Association's exhibition featured member artists who repurpose recycled materials in their works. This show featured "Do You Inhale" (seen in my profile picture), a piece focusing on the tobacco industry and its advertising.
Biography
Detroit native Julie Lipa creates historical documentations of America's Mid-century era. These works appear cheery from a distance but are sardonic up close. Portions of vintage appliances such as TV sets and radios anchor three-dimensional works underpinned by photo transfer collage and topped by a resin-coated spokesmodel. A numbered, metal plate bearing her brand "Lipalux" certifies authenticity.
Her new series is "Pulp Fission: Classic Comics Reconstructed." Over the course of several months, she curated and categorized countless individual comic panels, titles and narratives from thousands public domain comic books. Taken
out of its original context, these elements create stories with a
fresh narrative that include the violent and sexist messaging of the time and are updated to tell queer or risqué stories that simply weren't permissible in
Mid-century America.