JAN LIPETZ
Artist statement
Jan Lipetz’s work explores the subtle and compelling intersection of nature, primitive form, and abstraction. Through shape, line, texture, balance, and volume, she creates works that invite sustained looking and reveal themselves gradually. What first appears simple often unfolds into something more complex.
With an extensive background in painting, graphic design, and art direction, Lipetz brings a highly developed sensitivity to composition and visual language. She grew up learning alongside her mother long time Seattle artist Lin Lipetz. Her practice is rooted in a longstanding fascination with the beauty, tension, and rhythm inherent in line, shape, and form.
Her exploration of three-dimensional form extends these concerns into space. Forms shift, lines emerge and disappear, and unexpected details become part of an evolving visual narrative. A curve, a mark, a small dot, or an unexpected turn can subtly alter the perception of an entire work.
For Lipetz, making is a process of discovery. Each work develops through an interplay of intention and unexpected possibility, inviting the viewer to look again, follow a line, consider a form, and discover what may be waiting just beyond the immediate.
CURRENT WORK
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